Patrick Deneen and Our Otherworldly Postliberal “Future”
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The Problem With the Many and the Few
There's almost like this literary motif that he wants to hold up because he wants to talk about Polybius in the ancients and the difference between the many and the few. And I don't know how to say this except bluntly, many and few is not a particularly useful technical term for describing a country of 330 million people. occupy Wall Street was a populist movement. So were the tea parties. You can't look at those two things and say, Oh, look, populists, right? I mean, because they want different things. It was the first populist movement I have ever said anything nice about was the tea party movement.
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