2,400 years ago, Aristotle perfectly described today’s leftist tyrants

The ideology is new, but using ancient examples, Aristotle proves that tyranny’s tactics are always the same. This is an edited version of an essay that first appeared in American Thinker’s subscribers-only newsletter.I admit without shame that I’m one of those people for whom classic philosophy is a closed book. That’s my excuse for being unfamiliar with Aristotle’s Politics, an eight-volume work from the middle of the 4th century BC that analyzes various political systems. Fortunately for America, many of the Founders had read Politics and applied it to the Constitution. I mention Aristotle now because I learned yesterday that...