Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s piece features Buckley excoriating New York State for abandoning his brother’s ticket and choosing for themselves a bankrupting statism from which the Empire State has yet to escape.
The loss by Senator Buckley (he is my brother) of New York might very well have happened in any event, up against Daniel Patrick Moynihan. For one thing, New York is the most liberal state in the country, and New York City is the nerve center of left-ideology. Patrick Moynihan, although he is an eloquent man, was not so eloquent as to persuade New Yorkers that he is as harebrained as Bella Abzug in domestic policies, so he got the Moderate Democrats.
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