The MEC has really honed his chops regarding a palatable presentation of collectivism. He can make it seem like a quintessentially American value. One tool he's devised is to describe the nation as a family. Pilon dials in on that:
Not for nothing did he invoke the family, that elemental social unit in which we truly are responsible to one another and to future generations—by law, by custom, and, ideally, in our hearts. But only metaphorically is America a family, its members bound by tendrils of intimacy and affection. Realistically, the country is a community of individuals and private institutions, including the family, with their own interests, bound not by mutual love but by the political principles that are set forth in the Constitution, a document that secures and celebrates the freedom to pursue those interests, varied as they might be.
The MEC has his spiel down to where he can warm up a crowd with his fuzzy nods to patriotic fervor, and then get to his core concepts: "repairing" the middle class, denigrating individual ambition, giving people that "fair shake" of which he's so enamored.
Pure Chicago / Alinsksy-style radicalism. The MEC learned well at the feet of Heather Booth, Greg Galluzzo, Harry Boyte et al. Dress up your revolutionary aims in the cloak of tradition and love of country. And then proceed with the fundamental transformation.
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