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Naomi Wolf on ‘The End of America’

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

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“. . . if tomorrow you read in the New York Times or the Washington Post that New York Times editor Bill Keller has been arrested, the staff will all be scared, others will get scared. . . . [P]eople still think it’s a democracy, even while the martial law steps have begun. And that’s where we are at, unless we get it.”

Presidential elections are less than a year away—perhaps you’ve heard?—and Democrats show a disturbing complaisance, an unwarranted confidence that in 2008 they somehow will win the White House (even with Hillary Clinton as their candidate?). After 2000 and 2004, how can they be sure?

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