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TIM CARNEY: Democrats Just Don?t Understand The New Populism. ?The Left has misread the postbailou?

By Glenn Reynolds

TIM CARNEY: Democrats Just Don’t Understand The New Populism. “The Left has misread the postbailout populist sentiment all along, assuming public anger was directed at the rich. But American anger, I suspect, is directed not at some people who have money or success, but at those who profit through cronyism and their connections to power. In other words, anti-bailout anger is not anger at the rich, but anger at those unfairly getting rich — at the taxpayer’s expense.” Yes.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).