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The brilliant but disgraced President Richard Nixon once spoke of the “silent majority” in American politics.

These were the people, he said, who didn’t wave signs or march in the streets. Rather, they were the people who quietly went about their lives, going to work, raising their families, and giving back to their communities.

Nixon made these comments in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War. But over four decades later, his words still ring true. For if there was ever a time that a silent majority existed in American politics, it is today. The current debate over raising the debt limit is a good example.

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