This is how deplorable Hillary Clinton thinks you are: She feels the state can better raise your children than you can.You’re not going to read this on her website, or find it in her presidential platform, but still it’s there. Throughout the 1970s, Mrs. Clinton wrote a series of intellectual essays on children’s issues that, to this day, she hasn’t repudiated or publicly disavowed.
Christopher Lasch, a historian and liberal in public policy, wrote in Harper’s of Mrs. Clinton’s essays on child rearing, that “a careful reading of [her] argument. shows that she objects to the family much more than she objects to the state … Although she warns that the state’s authority must be ‘exercised only in warranted cases,’ her writings leave the unmistakable impression that it is the family that holds children back and the state that sets them free.”
Perhaps the body electorate has swiftly changed since ...