"Today's progressives cannot be viewed primarily as pragmatic Truman- or Clinton-style majoritarians," write Fred Siegel and Joe Kotkin in the City Journal. "Rather they resemble the medieval clerical class ... as dogmatic in their beliefs as the most strident evangelical minister or mullah." The see citizens as a "nation of dodos" "too dumb to thrive" without government direction.
Soft authoritarian progressivism is at odds with democratic, pluralistic traditions and presents a growing potential for a constitutional crisis "pitting a relentless executive power against a disgruntled, alienated" nation of the "'dodos' who make up the majority of Americans ..."
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