While the Republicans thought the victory of Republican philosophy will carry them past the post in the November elections, came the attack from within their own ranks. Steve Forbes, with his freelunch, tax-cutting propaganda, declared the centerpiece of the Republican revolution, the balanced budget, unwarranted and undesirable. And even before the fire of Forbes outburst could be put out, came Pat Buchanan's tirade targeting the party's central ideology on class warfare — the weapon the Democrats had always used against the Republicans. Buchanan held the conservative icon, capitalism, not the welfare state as America's enemy. The real culprits, for him, were ruthless captains of industry, financiers and the political class. These were the three vested interests that collaborated to let other parasitic elements like immigrants, materially affect the life of the ordinary American. The obvious refrain is that the big guy, not Big Government, is killing the little American. What is wrong if an overreaching government seeks to shield the ordinary citizen from deeply destructive dependency on the big guy? The wrong will in fact be when an uncaring government fails to protect victims, the people, of the big guy.