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Common Quotes by Christopher Lasch
- The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
- Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
- The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
- The left has lost the common touch.
- The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
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