The end of an era

Sidney Blumenthal, former advisor to Bill Clinton, sees the US presidential elections as the end of the Republican era. Key Republican policies have failed, Blumenthal writes in The Guardian: "Certain factors that have dominated US politics for 40 years seem destined to recede to the far corners. In economics, supply-side panaceas and deregulation created the worst crisis since the Great Depression. ... In foreign policy, neoconservatism led to the morass in Iraq and Afghanistan while undermining the western alliance. In social policy, the evangelical right battered science, the separation of church and state, and the right to privacy. Finally, the conservative principle of limited government has become a watchword for incompetence, cronyism, corruption, hypocrisy, and contempt for the rule of law."

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