Jonathan Chait Redlines the Orwell Meter

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“Behold the Democratic Future, Boasts Jonathan Chait, Because Suspicion of Government Is Racist,” as spotted by J.D. Tuccille at Reason’s Hit & Run blog, whose post begins with a brilliant lede:

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Over at New York Magazine, which today suffered a website crash that temporarily lowered Internet smug levels by a measurable degree, Jonathan Chait makes the bold claim that the Democratic Party is entering a period of dominance. His argument is partially rooted in favorable ethnic and generational trends that have much to do with the relative skills of the two major parties in enticing new voters—something that can confer a very real, but hardly permanent advantage. But Chait also proclaims victory for the donkey party because, he says, “America’s unique brand of ideological anti-statism is historically inseparable…from the legacy of slavery,” and who wants anything to do with that?

So Freedom is Slavery…? As a famous Indiana lineman once said, “Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important!”

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A reminder that while George Orwell didn’t intend for 1984 to become a how-to guide, it’s book-within-a-book, Emmanuel Goldstein’s Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, really wasn’t meant to be a how-to guide. Even in New Oceania, err New York.

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