A follow up point from the WSJ on my post yesterday about Paul Ryan: Republicans are accused of racism if they ignore the least fortunate, and now theyre racist for taking poverty and its causes seriously. Unless you unreservedly favor the welfare status quo, or used to be a community organizer, the left gets you coming and going. The attacks on Mr. Ryan are one more example of the politics of personal vilification that typifies the left these days. Its policies were supposed to reduce inequality, but instead the income gap is widening. They were supposed to lift people out of poverty, but poverty has increased. So the last thing they can tolerate is a conservative like Mr. Ryan who is looking for better solutions and using a moral language of opportunity and upward mobility that could appeal to Americans of all incomes and backgrounds. Liberals have to smear conservatives personally because they know theyre losing on the merits.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:10:47 +0000
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