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I shouldn't be quietly saying 'wow' because a young writer is charting the replacement of material emancipation by a beauty contest of 'marginalised' and 'minority' groups, but there we are. Thank you for bringing a non-addled mind to bear on this issue.

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Excellent piece. One note: the Democratic Party has long been close to financial elites, at least since Roosevelt. But they could also co-exist with organized labor. That began to change in the 1970s. See “Right Turn,” by Ferguson and Jenkins.

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