A DANGEROUS DISAFFECTION. John Hinderaker from PowerLine:

I think [there is] a growing conviction that America is governed by a political class that has its own agenda, involving its own enrichment as well as the endless expansion of its own power, and that this political class is contemptuous of the opinions of ordinary Americans and is determined to impose its will regardless of how Americans vote. I think this perception is in fact true.

To support that contention, Hinderaker’s prime exhibit is the historyy of federal spending, reproduced below.


Hinderaker comments: “You can vote for limited government, but you can't get it; the political class won't let you.” Or, as Alabama Governor George Wallace, running for President in 1968 said, "There is not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties!"

I didn’t believe him then. I do now.