![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, the writer was a libertarian on economic and social matters, while the president prefers to characterize himself as a progressive, a term and a disposition that Mencken thoroughly abhorred and roundly scorned. ![]() Mencken wrote his autobiography to cap a long literary career in contrast, Obama turned to the same genre to announce his arrival on the national scene. That would be the terminally high-minded Woodrow Wilson, whom Mencken not-so-cordially despised. Where might that leave our incumbent president, who has offered himself to us not just as a high-minded reformer but as a kind of secular savior? As such, Obama sees himself as the reincarnation of our original scholar-as-president. The sage of Baltimore was skeptical of all politicians, especially the high-minded, reform-minded sort. Mencken and Barack Obama have in common? Not much, it would seem. The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class ![]()
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