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Phil Hawkins's avatar

I had already read two of the three (I hit Instapundit three times a day, and have done so for years). But behind Reynolds' column is a basic truth: While Karl Marx dreamed that his ideas would be taken up and enacted by the working class (the "proletariat" in his terms), that has never happened. If you look into the adoption of Communism in any country, it is always the intellectuals who go for it--and a number of "wannabe" intellectuals. Lenin was no working-class kid; neither was Stalin. Mao was what passed for an intellectual in China at the time. The same is true of Ho Chi Minh and others, including Pol Pot. Marx himself was never a worker either--he spent most of his life sponging off wealthy friends. The Working Class lives closer to the Real World than the intellectuals, and this is one of those areas where it shows. And the disconnect is becoming clearer, and starting to have costs--for the Intellectuals.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I’m curious along with whom paid Michael Avenatti, who paid all the anti Kavanaugh research and support that fed the Christine Blasey Ford accusations against Kavanaugh including a paid opposition researcher. Seems to include lots of the same lawfare crew involved against Trump.

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