JD Vance, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, and 19th century popes

Published July 17, 2024 5:15pm ET



Allow me to share a quote from an unnamed author that has had a significant influence on the political moment of 2024.

“It has come to pass that working men have been surrendered, isolated, and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition … To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.”

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