Running for president in 1952, Democrat Adlai Stevenson had, so goes the lore, one of the wittier ripostes in modern American political history: “You will have the vote of every thinking American,” a supporter called out. “That’s not enough, madam,” Stevenson supposedly replied. “We need a majority.”
If true, it was one of the more revealing statements as well. Sixty years later, Jonathan Gruber — not a presidential candidate, but another liberal “egghead”: the MIT economist credited as Obamacare’s “architect” — dispensing with wit, told an audience at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2013:
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