Political Extremism: Is It New? Is It Different? Is It Curable?

Kastenmeier Lecture, March 1, 1996, by Abner Mikva, published in The Gargoyle, Volume XXV, Number 3, Spring 1997, p. 4.

I would even say that a political malaise has overtaken the electorate, except that the last Democrat who said that lost the next election, one Jimmy Carter.