The Political Philosophy of Our Governor

This month, The American Spectator magazine introduces its readers to Rhode Island's Independent Governor Lincoln Chafee through a profile by Ethan Epstein in its "Eminentoes"section. The gist of the piece is that Chafee comes from an old-money political dynasty and views political party more as part of a heritage that he, by rights, ought to be able to define. He did so with his abandoned Republican brand, and he's done the same with his amorphous Independents.

We who've watched his tenure up close can now say that Chafee is “moderate” in the statist sense: He believes big government should confiscate enough money to pay for itself. It was no error that the Cato Institute marked him as the seventh worst governor in the United States for fiscal policy.

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