Jonathan Chait says the hidden camera video that went viral yesterday exposes Mitt Romney
"as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the
sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at
the heart of the mania that has seized his party. He believes that market incomes
in the
"The revelations in this video come to me as
a genuine shock. I have never hated Romney. I presumed his ideological makeover
since he set out to run for president was largely phony, even if he was now
committed to carry through with it, and to whatever extent he'd come to believe
his own lines, he was oblivious or naïve about the damage he would inflict upon
the poor, sick, and vulnerable. It seems unavoidable now to conclude that
Romney's embrace of Paul Ryanism is born of actual contempt for the looters and
moochers, a class war on behalf of his own class."
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Herman Greene
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