Digby: Moral Hazard

There is an interesting back and forth going on between Jonathan Chait and Peter Wood who has written a book about "The New Anger" which is apparently a manifestation of a leftwing unhinged by Jimi Hendrix.

I wrote about Staney Kurtz's review of Wood's book last week in some detail, tracing the actual genesis of the "New Anger" --- and let's just say that it wasn't the Democrats who invented it. In fact, it was once celebrated on the cover of national magazines as a righteous Republican emotion: