Prescient Tocqueville

Here's a letter to the New York Times:

Many of your readers are mystified that scores of ordinary Americans are so vocally opposed to Obama's, Reid's, and Pelosi's "Progressive" agenda (Letters, Sept. 23).

I am among these opponents.  A chief reason for my opposition was expressed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his book The Old Regime and the French Revolution.  Discussing the years leading up to 1789, Tocqueville wrote of the French state in words that have an eerily contemporary American ring...