
U.S. Conservatives
On poverty, Romney should heed Reagan
Mitt Romney’s defenders argue that he was taken out of context when he declared, “ I’m not concerned about the very poor ,” pointing out that he also said, “We have a safety net [to help the very poor].One of the most fascinating things, for me as a Brit, about engaging with American politics is that all political issues are filtered in the media through an extraordinarily crass Left vs. Right paradigm. Left and right are not the two paradigms of American politics.

