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Bush’s Second “Born-Again” Moment (Sullivan)

9/11 became, for the president, his second “born-again” moment. Just as a born-again Christian fixates upon a moment on which his entire life now pivots, the born-again presidency redefined itself entirely in terms of an absolute commitment to fighting an abstract enemy, easily conflated into a single entity, readily accessible to the fundamentalist psyche: evil.

— Andrew Sullivan, The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How To Get It Back (pg. 158, 2006)

Joshua Hynes

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 1:08am. It has been filed under Media, Books, Quotes, News, Politics, Writers, Joshua.

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