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the claim that comparatively “retarded” Americans should not have their views heard in political discourse is still precisely how both progressives and National Review conservatives regard populists to this day.

“Klosterman is like pop culture’s version of Michael Moore, a zealot who simultaneously amuses and provokes…. Savvy and insightful.” —USA Today

Weakening the soft authority of communities in favor of the hard power of states is likely both to weaken welfare and to diminish liberty.

“The foreign poor are prime Democratic constituents because they’re easily demagogued into tribal voting,” Coulter writes. “Republicans’ whispering sweet nothings in Hispanic ears isn’t going to change that. Voting Democratic is part of their cultural identity. Race loyalty trumps the melting pot.”

argue that those who single out Israel for unique criticism not directed against countries with far worse human rights records are themselves guilty of international bigotry.

Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people’s feelings. Such restrictions do not necessarily come from the state itself, rather from the forceful establishment