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Chris Matthews is almost right about what’s wrong with the Democrats’ Party. But his own words show that the root of their problem isn’t the practice of elitism. It’s the false, un-American understanding of equality he also espouses. True Americans have no qualms about feeling they are better than somebody else, so long as they can prove it. This fair self-respect is one source of the drive that produced individuals fit to brave the wilderness, explore the unknown, risk all their fortune in the belief that they could get the job done better than anyone else. It’s why, as Patton...

California's primary elections Tuesday underscored the Golden State's liberal drift, but one of the candidates who lost the race for governor powerfully diagnosed "progressive" policies as the root of California's snobbish inequality. He compared the state to the dystopian nightmare of "Elysium," a 2013 film about a highly stratified society where the poor struggle to live on planet Earth while the rich enjoy a lavish life off planet. "This is the story about a real-world 'Elysium' — a state which has the highest levels of poverty & inequality in the country but whose residents have convinced themselves that they are...