His basic argument, that American politics is being ruined by
...the proud, by those who think they have a magic lever to control human destiny and who will not compromise it away. This is the oldest story known to man.
is
something Isaiah Berlin warned about for much of his adult life:
Those, no doubt, are in some way fortunate who have brought themselves, or have been brought by others, to obey some ultimate principle before the bar of which all problems can be brought. Single-minded monists, ruthless fanatics, men possessed by an all-embracing coherent vision do not know the doubts and agonies of those who cannot wholly blind themselves to reality.
ibid. 47 [lv]
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