Ronald Reagan once said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party.  It left me.”  Since Reagan’s time, the Democratic Party has become increasingly radical on defense, government spending, environmental policy, and social issues.  An anti-Communist hawk like JFK would have no place in today’s Democratic party. William A. Galston thinks otherwise in his Wall Street Journal piece, “Americans Are as Polarized as Washington.”  Galston asserts, regarding polarized Washington: “In Congress, the answer is clear: While Democrats have moved toward the left, Republicans have moved much further right.”  He offers no further explanation or documentation; apparently years of repetition by the New York Times has turned opinion into fact. As for the polarized Americans, Galston draws a similar conclusion from a “welter of statistics” from Gallup polls, based on voter self-identification: On the role of...(Read Full Post)