The American Spectator : Why Ryan Terrifies the Left
(Kemp) He never hesitated, for example, to challenge the idea that theAmerican Left somehow had a moral claim to leadership in civilrights.
He would remind, as he always called them, "our friends onthe Left" that they had been "mired in Reconstruction mentality,(and had been) implicit defenders of white supremacy, the SolidSouth and the Ku Klux Klan."
In a speech at Harvard he looked hisliberal audience straight in the eye and said of his pro-growth,pro-capitalism policies that they were a "moral obligation" to ourfellow Americans.
A Jack Kemp speech wasn't complete without describing left-wingpolicies as "paternalistic" or "condescending" or "elitist." "Manicegalitarians" as he once called leftists.
He believed passionatelyin free markets and economic growth as a pillar of a moral society.
"You can't enrich poor nations by impoverishing their people," hewould say in a 1990 speech
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