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But they seldom admit that the GOP's actual record of governance comes closer to their vision of conservatism--a more family-friendly welfare state, an interventionist foreign policy, and largely ineffectual attempts to use small policy initiatives to reach out to Democratic constituencies--than it does to the government-slashing, immigration-restricting rhetoric of Glenn Beck.
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In Sugar Water, the artist functions as a cog in the system of mechanical reproduction, while the staccato, subliminal interruption of advertising--capitalism's art par excellence--operates as a metaphor for our fragmented and ineffectual attempts to narrate terror.
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