Palin – In Reflection

Yuval Levin writes a very interesting piece examining Sarah Palin’s presence in this last election.  A very reasonable and interesting reduction of why she was loved and hated by many.  I highly encourage you to read.  Much more level-headed than the creator of this image–

A well founded argument

I wrote here about Palin and my curiosity at the behavior directed toward her.  Levin’s article does much to shed light on that.

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As an aside, here’s a quote from Levin’s article that I found to be an apt summation of the political parties:

The Republican party has been the party of cultural populism and economic elitism, and the Democrats have been the party of cultural elitism and economic populism. Republicans tend to identify with the traditional values, unabashedly patriotic, anti-cosmopolitan, non-nuanced Joe Sixpack, even as they pursue an economic policy that aims at elite investor-driven growth. Democrats identify with the mistreated, underpaid, overworked, crushed-by-the-corporation “people against the powerful,” but tend to look down on those people’s religion, education, and way of life.

(HT: Powerline)