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219 Introduction: Between Liberal Relief and Conservative Care 1. On his way to the Democratic nomination for president in 1992, the Arkansas governor said “I feel your pain” when confronted by a man with AIDS, making the candidate the object of commentary and ridicule.“Heckler Stirs Clinton Anger: Excerpts from the Exchange,” New York Times (March 28, 1992): 9. As one journalist noted years later, when Clinton uttered those words “he may have set himself up for years of razzing and mockery.” Natalie Angier, “Yet Another Sex Difference Found: Gaining Relief from a Painkiller,” New York Times, October 30, 1996, C12; for “I’m not here . . .”, Alison Powell and Leigh Denny, “The Toughest Love,” Guardian, May 14, 1999, A13; “best illustration . . . ,” Limbaugh’s 1996 television discussion of Clinton can be seen at: Rush Limbaugh, “Bill Clinton Fakes Crying at Ron Brown’s Funeral,” YouTube video, posted by blogologist on January 22, 2008, www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8TOGrq8Bo; “just keep in mind . . . ,” David Remnick, “Day of the Dittohead,” Washington Post, February 20, 1994, C1. 2. For “easy to parody . . . ,” see E. J. Dionne Jr., “. . . Playing Defense,” Washington Post, August 26, 1996, A13; for “the left is so fond . . . ,” see John A. Beard, letter, “Thanks to Liberals, ‘Civil Rights’ has lost its meaning,” Washington Times, February 11, 1994, A22; for “whiners . . . ,” see Paul Taylor, “Makes Me Wanna Whine,” Washington Post, August 27, 1995, C1. 3. Ronald Reagan, inauguration address, January 20, 1981, YouTube video, posted by C-SPAN on January 14, 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPt7xG x4Xo. 4. The study therefore contributes to the diverse and rich scholarship in disability studies. See for example Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, The New Disability History: American Perspectives (New York: NYU Press, 2001); Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies (New York: Columbia University Notes 220 NOTES TO PAGES 45 Press, 1997); and Ruth O’Brien, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). 5. In recent years, scholars in political studies have turned increasing attention to the role of emotions—compassion, fear, anger, disgust—in the cultural politics of citizenship and governance. See for example, Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson, eds., Politics and the Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies (London: Continuum, 2012). See also Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), esp. “The Contingency of Pain.” On compassion, see Martha Nussbaum, “Compassion: The Basic Social Emotion,” Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (1996): 27–58; and Maureen Whitebook, “Compassion as a Political Virtue,” Political Studies 50 (2002): 529–44. For “it is not dependency . . . ,” see A. Cooper and J. Lousada, Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare (London: Karnac, 2005). See also Tim Darington,“The Therapeutic Fantasy: Self-Love and Quick Wins,” in Politics and the Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies, ed. Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson (New York: Continuum , 2012). 6. The literature on liberalism and conservatism in the United States has explored not only the tensions between New Deal liberalism and the rise of neoconservatism but also documented internal tensions in these political commitments—the tensions between, for example, New Deal liberals and southern liberals in the 1940s and 1950s and the internal fracture lines among conservatives on questions of taxes, Communism, race, and so on. Laura Kalman represents another valuable line of analysis—looking closely at the ways liberalism and conservatism coexisted in politics and the ways in which the law became a site for battles over the future of liberal and conservative American society. See Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980 (New York: Norton , 2010); and Laura Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996). Other valuable works on liberalism and conservatism, to which this study owes great debt, include the following: Bruce Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (New York: Da Capo, 2001); Gil Troy and Vincent J. Cannato, eds., Living in the Eighties (New York: Oxford, 2009); W. Elliot Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham, eds., The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies (Lawrence: Kansas University Press, 2003); Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981–1980; A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford, 2011); Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New Right (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001); Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their...

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