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A meditation on St. Ralph

February 24, 2004 Posted by Scott at 9:34 AM

Our friend Steve Hayward has a definitive diagnosis of the case of one Ralph Nader. Steve's diagnosis is that "Nader has succumbed to the personal corruption of his own massive publicity and power." But Steve's diagnosis is a diagnosis with a poignant lesson: "The lesson is that you don’t have to be elected to anything to succumb to the political disease — an 'activist' can be afflicted just as severely [as a politician]." Steve's case study over at No Left Turns is the perfectly titled "A meditation on St. Ralph."