There is some fractured fraction of America that is looking at each other through prisms of bigotry. It's rather perplexing to see, but I'm not really very concerned about it. While we still are running at 10% unemployment, there is not enough anger in the streets for pitchforks and torches. Instead, Americans are angry at the Other-Americans and are throwing around big words of virtue as their own calling and calling the rest bigots.
Everyone, it seems, has a Million Men like themselves, and until we've had forty such marches on Washington, we're all just watching a parade. Being in Washington is symbolic, but it's difficult for me to imagine what kind of march would instantiate or change legislation on the books. Lobbyists march on Washington every day - they don't waste time around a reflecting pool.
There is only one thing here that marks a departure, which is that the Right is doing a dance with the devil of populism. It is the sort of populism that the populist Left wants nothing to do with. It puts the Progressive Elite on the defensive in an interesting way. Now more than ever they are questioning the intelligence and moral sanity of the common man. This puts them in the position of do-gooders whose doings are rejected by the people it's supposed to be good for. That is, if they could get anything done.
Who will do right by the common man? That is the question.
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