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Two for two:

Our elections are dominated by the same tired personality script, trotted out over and over and over. Democrats and liberals — no matter how poor their upbringing, no matter how self-made they are, no matter how egalitarian their policies — are the freakish, out-of-touch elitists who despise the values of the Regular Americans. […]

Glenn Greenwald:
But beyond just that, there is something deeply misleading — disturbingly self-justifying — about the stampede to depict John Yoo as some kind of singular, isolated aberration. It’s redolent of the scapegoating of Lynndie England and her low-level Abu Ghraib colleagues for what was official government policy. The responsibility for the torture regime does […]