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on the British model. “Only if the President is rearmed with the support that comes from party leadership can he be freed from dangerous reliance on personal popularity courted by means of the media and registered by the opinion polls.”

It is hard not to suspect that he was writing at a time when it appeared that, even with a dark Reaganite cloud gathering on the horizon, the Democratic Party would remain strong, the Republican Party feeble; and that, in consequence, linking presidential power to party power looked like the best way to neutralize any antisocialist element that might find its way to the Oval Office. I doubt that he has seriously contemplated the dark possibility that “cooperation” between President and Congress might produce a different kind of “social reform” and “social action” than he had in mind.

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on the British model. “Only if the President is rearmed with the support that comes from party leadership can he be freed from dangerous reliance on personal popularity courted by means of the media and registered by the opinion polls.”

It is hard not to suspect that he was writing at a time when it appeared that, even with a dark Reaganite cloud gathering on the horizon, the Democratic Party would remain strong, the Republican Party feeble; and that, in consequence, linking presidential power to party power looked like the best way to neutralize any antisocialist element that might find its way to the Oval Office. I doubt that he has seriously contemplated the dark possibility that “cooperation” between President and Congress might produce a different kind of “social reform” and “social action” than he had in mind.