Progressives Believe You Deserve Some Pain  

Progressives Believe You Deserve Some Pain  
A looter robs a Target store in Oakland, Calif., on May 30, 2020. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Winston Churchill understood the dark underbelly of what the socialists’ obsession with equality leads to when he said, “The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” The progressive–socialist–environmentalist left that has taken over the Democratic Party seems intent on making sure that Americans aren’t able to escape or avoid getting their share of misery.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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