Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Quote of the Day

"Trump is certainly not the answer for our mess, but he is not the cause of it either. His supporters are not saints, but they embrace the argument that elites promote policies in the abstract whose negative consequences in the concrete always fall on someone else less wealthy and well-connected. Their anger at those hypocrisies deserves to be heard with respect. For the most part, they are supporting a candidate who, by the standards of a debased age, is no more disingenuous or disreputable than he who currently sits in the White House or she who will likely sit there in 2017."

--Victor Davis Hansen

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3 comments:

Grammy said...

"elites promote policies in the abstract whose negative consequences in the concrete always fall on someone else less wealthy and well-connected."

Oh what a perfect description of The Affordable Care Act. Who among the less wealthy and well-connected is now paying less for healthcare and getting more for it?

Malott said...

And when your children attend private schools and you live in a gated community, opening the country's borders is less troublesome.

Grammy said...

Those in the far northern states seem to know best how generous the southern border states should be with their borders.