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Mark Steyn on ‘the fundamental disconnect between America’s national mythology and who Americans are as a people…’

October 30, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

or at least as a voting majority, in the 21st century.

To reprise the Frenchman I quoted in this space a while back, “Americans love Big Government as much as Europeans. The only difference is that Americans refuse to admit it.”

And, because they refuse to admit it, they’ve wound up with a uniquely disastrous form of statism — a kind of statism on the sly, in which the zombie husks of private industry are conscripted as the front men for de facto nationalization.

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