Democrats vs. Betsy Devos Education Secretary Nomination -- Why? | National Review
(Photo: Aleksandar Radovanovic/Dreamstime) 'Voting against their own interests' The popular progressive understanding of the Republican party and conservative movement is something like this: It is, at heart, a conspiracy of corporate oligarchs who use a collection of so-called social issues — religion, bigotry, racial resentment, anti-immigrant sentiment — to stir up the rubes in support of its own parochial economic agenda, tricking them into "voting against their own interests" in the popular progressive phrase. Wall Street guys pulling the strings and writing the checks, foot-washing snake-handlers manning the barricades. This isn't really true, of course, as anybody who ever has spent any time around actual Republican politicians or conservative activists knows. But might something similar actually be true of the Democratic party? A few progressives have been wondering aloud this week why it is that Democrats have stirred themselves to oppose, with steely resolve,Read full article from Democrats vs. Betsy Devos Education Secretary Nomination -- Why? | National Review
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