Writing in the New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_packer
Packer quotes Pat Buchanan: “Every great cause starts as a movement, becomes a business, and ends up a racket.”
Describing the convservative movement, Packer notes that it was “conceived by Goldwater, brought to Power by Nixon, mass appeal by Reagan, radicalized by Gingrich, criminalized by DeLay, and ultimately brought to pieces by Bush.”
