Sanctus Santorum
Bunch, Will, Mother Jones
RETAIL POLITICS
This past March, an interviewer for Christianity Today asked Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) what he thought of Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?, which posits that conservative politicians have whipped up working-class anger over social issues as a smoke screen for a real agenda to benefit large corporations. Santorum leapt on the question as if he'd been waiting for it. "That's just the kind of derogatory, elitist pablum," he declared, "that you get when people don't realize that there's a lot of people who don't put their treasure in this world and look for something more than just 'How much more money I can make?' They understand that life is more …
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Publication information:
Article title: Sanctus Santorum.
Contributors: Bunch, Will - Author.
Magazine title: Mother Jones.
Volume: 30.
Issue: 7
Publication date: December 2005.
Page number: 9+.
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