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That the American people appear to have kept faith in the hardest of times with the idea of leaving it mainly to markets rather than governments to allocate life's material rewards strikes many Republicans as a marvellous thing the glorious opposite of what happened in the 1930s, when the economically stricken turned to government for succour.

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