ht to argue against the extremes on both sides while suggesting that many of their core principles were not mutually exclusive — in other words, that Great Society values can endure in a Tea Party moment. He defined “patriotism” as a shared sense of responsibility for the vulnerable and less fortunate. Basic st

tter' package Wednesday in Pittsburgh," and the AP says "new details and proposals are emerging of a massive investment on par with the New Deal or Great Society programs." The package, "with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy expected to be proposed to pay for it," is "transforming the old ideas o

017 NYTimes.com » For decades, universal health care was the great dream of the Democratic Party, the last big piece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society left to be put into place. From the moment Barack Obama and congressional Democrats accomplished that in 2O1O, with the passage of the Affordable C

e Recovery Act, has probably kept more people out of poverty than a whole lot of other government programs that are currently in place." Johnson's Great Society will be fifty years old in 2014, but no Republican wants a repeat of that scale of government ambition. Obama acknowledges this, saying, "The appet

y needed was a man like John McCormick, the Democratic Speaker of the House who had served during Bannon’s teenage years and had shepherded Johnson’s Great Society legislation. McCormick and other Democrats from the 1960s were Bannon’s political heroes—put Tip O’Neill in that pantheon, too. An Irish Catholic wor