Word: pendulum
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...come to seem the most marketable. This was a problem on the left for a long time. When Congressman Randy Neugebauer of Texas screamed "Baby killer!" on the House floor, the epithet resonated - the protesters who screamed those same words at U.S. troops in the 1960s sent the American pendulum swinging back toward conservatism and crippled the Democratic Party for several generations. The Tea Party nativism, paranoia and anti-intellectualism embraced by the Republicans have rarely been a winning hand in American politics. (See pictures of the Tea Party movement...
...feel that the pendulum is a little too far in one direction in that our rules are now too tight and could actually stifle innovation,” Serhan says. “With time, it has to come back to some equilibrium...