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HEH: Politics: Proles Have Gotten Under the Egalitarians? Skin. ?Progressivism purports to prote?

By Glenn Reynolds

HEH: Politics: Proles Have Gotten Under the Egalitarians? Skin. “Progressivism purports to protect the toiling and exploited masses from the amoral rapacity of big banks, big insurance, big tobacco, and whatnot. It must be exceedingly frustrating to have the toiling and exploited masses turn against the policies you have designed for their own good. . . . The Tea Party proles who reject the interference, reject also the premise that the Obama administration and its progressive supporters constitute a superior class: America’s would-be overseers really are no better than anyone else. For those who profess to care about equality, this must be terribly hard to hear.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).