Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

HOW CAN WE GO WRONG? GOD TALKS TO OUR PRESIDENT
"a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that ''if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.'' The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion. " What makes Bush's presidency so radical — even to some Republicans — is his preternatural, faith-infused certainty in uncertain times.
(NYT MAGAZINE, unearthed by Illruminations and Boing, Boing)