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Christopher Cook
Apr 19, 2024
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"I think I know man, but as for men, I know them not."
—Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Marx, Rousseau, and other notables of the left famously “loved humanity but hated people.”1 In other words—they loved “the people” as an abstract concept. Actual individual humans…not so much.

Churchill and other conservatives are noted for expressing the opposite view. They like t…

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