Behind the celebrity factor, behind the recall circus, lies a tantalizing possibility. In his unique blend of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a genuinely new kind of politician, one that both parties have lamentably failed to provide in the past couple of decades. In our political wars, he's a synthesis. In our culture wars, he's a truce.
In some ways, the culture wars in this country for the past couple of decades have been about the 1970s. The sexual and cultural revolution of that decade symbolizes for one side all that has gone wrong with America, and for...
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