MARK JUDGE: Ezra Klein and ‘The Demon in Democracy.’ “Recently on Hot Air, John Sexton explored a recent discussion that took place between Ross Douthat of the New York Times and liberal buzzkill Ezra Klein. Douthat asked a very fundamental question: How does the left define happiness? How do they think we should live, aside from a utopian idea of flying cars and perfect racial harmony? Klein badly booted the answer. . . . It has been an advantage on the right for people to say it’s good to be a father, or that it’s good to devote yourself to one person, or that it’s good to love God, or to go skateboarding, or to listen to A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. There are in fact times in our lives when we feel satiated, when we feel loved by our spouse or by God, when we look at children with joy and love or are stunned by a world of art. When life is good and we don’t need an arc to ‘bend towards’ anything. The demon in democracy says these feelings are a fraud. It is a demon whose war against happiness and push towards communism may cause the collapse of the United States.”