Nixon taught that a candidate should run to the right during primaries, then run to the center for the general election. Whoever best occupies this mysterious central place will, the talking heads assure us, be elected president this November.
Symbols are key battlefields where the Culture War is being fought.
This is why the Left is so eager to tear down the Confederate flag from atop South Carolina's capitol. It began as a fringe proposition favored by the politically extreme. But the idea that taxpayers should pay reparations to black Americans for the damages of slavery and segregation is no longer a fixation of the political margin. For more on Reparations for Black Slavery , see inside . Betty Friedan, the prophetess of women's liberation has been revealed as a liar, a spouse abuser and a closet Marxist.