Rich, that conservatives are always rooting for low turnout? I don’t believe in a theory of democracy that holds that it’s fine and dandy to help yourself to other people’s property as long as you’ve got a majority behind you. So I have no objection in principle to hoping that redistribution-minded people don’t vote. But it’s a bad position to be in.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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