The dangerously childish morality of liberal ObamaCare supporters

Jonathan Chait says conservatives have blood on their hands. But he only betrays the callowness of the progressive mind.

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When the Iraq War was a live issue in American politics, some of the supporters of the war made the following strange argument: Saddam Hussein was a bloodthirsty dictator; he had jails where opponents of the regime were tortured and killed. Therefore, those who opposed the Iraq War were personally responsible for the torture and death of those innocent individuals.

I mention this because in the debate over health care, one often hears from liberals a different version of that infantile argument.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.