It seems the moderate center of just about everything is vanishing. A decades-long process of political electrophoresis has pulled us all, it seems, to one pole or the other; the mediating layers of civil association that were the heart of American life in Tocqueville’s day are withering, leaving the atomized and deracinated citizen standing alone before the Leviathan; and the middle class, despite being the ostensible object of the President’s tenderest affections, has no place at either the table or the trough.
Regarding that last, here’s Victor Davis Hanson, with a newly published essay.
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We are living a fallacy. That’s very phallus-y.