E.J. Dionne Fights Nostalgia and Amnesia, but Succumbs to Myopia

In his Washington Post column this morning E.J. Dionne warns of liberals who suffer from nostalgia in believing that we can just bring back and expand the New Deal agenda from the 1930s. He also complains about the amnesia of conservatives who forget all the ways in which government investments in infrastructure, education, and research and development paved the way for economic growth.

Although these points are well-taken, the piece suffers from myopia in failing to acknowledge how the elite...