We're All Populists Now; That's Unfortunate

huffingtonpost.com — Today almost no one wants to get caught openly acknowledging the limits of public opinion. We are all populists now. The voice of The People is the voice of God. In a profound and disturbing way, our worship of The People has grown so rigid that we are in danger of losing touch with our own history. It is one thing to pay ordinary people the respect due them as human beings, quite another to pretend that everything they believe is beyond questioning. We used to understand this, but no longer seem to.

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