There is a very thoughtful essay by Yuval Levin making the rounds this morning. It's entitled "The Meaning of Sarah Palin" and I thought it was an excellent piece of political writing. Even if the thought of one more piece on Gov. Palin makes you want to hurl, for whatever reason, I think this one is worth reading because it analyzes the kind of symbol she became to the American left and to the American right, how both of those symbols were divorced from reality, where the McCain campaign really failed in political terms, and what lessons both left and right can take from the whole episode.
It's a non-vitriolic, balanced, level-headed, non-point-scoring discussion (at least I think so). There aren't many of those out there. This one's worth looking at. Particularly interesting to me was the identification of a double axis: cultural elitism vs. cultural populism, and economic elitism vs. economic populism, on which to think about political figures and political attitudes.
Very much interested in what others think of it.
h/t VC.
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