Do you prefer the Old Left or the New Left in America?

[Don Vito Corleone]

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Excellent post, and I'd add that even the original New Deal was headed by a quasi-aristocrat with a Brain Trust dominated by policy experts and intellectuals. That's not to say I think criticism of the modern American left being too dominated at times by those sorts of people lacks merit, but there's always a risk of oversimplifying the other way.