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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. … And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

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I think that presidents don’t give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don’t give it up.

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May 25, 2024

I think that presidents don’t give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don’t give it up.

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May 25, 2024

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. … And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

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