Yankee Peronism

Says Kraut: The notion of presidential car warranties strikes me as simply too bizarre, too comical, to mark the beginning of Yankee Peronism. Why not?

Obama has far different ambitions. His goal is to rewrite the American social compact, to recast the relationship between government and citizen. He wants government to narrow the nation’s income and anxiety gaps. Soak the rich for reasons of revenue and justice. Nationalize health care and federalize education to grant all citizens of all classes the freedom from anxiety about health care and college that the rich enjoy. And fund this vast new social safety net through the cash cow of a disguised carbon tax. Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission. Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. Sound like warmed-up Perónism to me. As refried at Harvard, and served up in Chicago.