![]() ![]() It does not do justice to the variety of positions that can properly be called progressive. ![]() This assessment of the sources of America's discontents, fueled as it is by anger and indignation, paints with too broad a brush. And our progressive elites show a proclivity to undercut self-government by shifting political power from the local to the federal and from the federal to the transnational. Our progressive elites frequently seem to prefer the company and counsel of fellow progressive elites from around the world to that of the large swath of their fellow citizens who vote for conservatives. Our progressive elites often identify democracy not with voters' preferences but rather with a tendentious conception of what all reasonable voters should want. ![]() Progressives' loathing of conservatives, conservative politicians and pundits add, is rooted in an increasingly antidemocratic and illiberal agenda. ![]()
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