What sold best was an image of oppressive “big government,” reflected in a tax system that was increasingly burdensome to ordinary people, combined with anti-communist nationalism and barely veiled racism. After all, everyone understood who the “welfare cheat” was, and who Kristol had in mind when he famously quipped that a neo-conservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
这里面最受鼓吹的是令人悲哀的“大政府”，表现为不断给普通百姓增加负担的税收制度，融合了反共产主义的民族主义和并不刻意掩饰的种族主义。不管怎样，每个人都知道什么是“福利国家”以及当克里斯托说出那句对新保守主义有名的挖苦“一个被现实掐了脖子的自由主义者”时他到底指的是什么意思。