Why many Americans hesitate to embrace the Bush revolution.
Daniel Henninger writes about a subject which should be the subtext of this election cycle, the continuing process of globalization. The process of globalization, which means the spread of free markets and competition around the world and the rising standard of living which follows from that, is a force which affects us all. And to deal with it effectively means adapting to this new economic reality and thus leaving behind much of the economic policy thinking of the past. The time of "The New Deal" is over and a new era has dawned. The ways of the past will not help us in the new global environment. To survive and thrive in this new economic world, America must have more flexibility, lower taxes, less regulation and a business-friendly environment at home. But these are the things we will not get from the Democrats who are still tied to the welfare-state past, trial lawyers and big unions. A vote for Bush is a vote for the future that the Democrats don't yet want to acknowledge as the new reality. But that reality is not going to go away just because John Kerry and the Democrats refuse to see it.
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