What makes the Bush presidency “radical” as opposed to merely “conservative” or “right-wing”?
Sidney Blumenthal: It’s certainly not conservative in any classical definition of the sense of conserving something. And, it’s radicalism, in some ways is of the Right, but it is a unique radicalism… …we’re in the grip of this radical presidency, and I don’t think that the country is fully aware of how radical Bush is, what the true and sweeping agenda is, and how this is changing our country fundamentally, including an attempt to change the nature of our government and Constitution. It is unique because it’s a kind of perverse mutation of conservatism and right-wing thought, but it’s unto itself. And it is unique in that Bush is more radical than any other president we have ever had in American history. LO: You say that many Americans don’t know what the agenda is. How would you summarize that agenda? SB: I think that agenda is to completely transform our system of government, so that we have an unaccountable, unfettered concentration of power in the Executive. It’s an agenda that
