What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied {always, it bears noting, a particularly ideologically extreme-and some would say greedy-subsection of the propertied} to restrict the promise of democracy for the many, acting in the knowledge that the majority would choose other policies if it could.
( Nancy MacLean )
[ Democracy in Chains: The Deep ]
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