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Last week a student presented himself in my office with a series of questions going back to the 1990s, with one in particular standing out: how the heck did Ross Perot emerge in 1992, and whatever happened to him and the populist mood he tapped into? Realize that today’s students were barely or not yet born in 1992, so this is distant history. The Tea Party phenomenon, of course, can be seen as an heir to the Perot movement. But there was one event from those years that stands out for special notice and which finds its exact parallel right now in the special Obamacare privileges for Congress: the House Bank scandal."...
