Can somebody do a wellness check on Bill Schubart, prominent denizen of Vermont’s shallow, brackish pool of “public intellectuals”? Because he just published an essay that brings to mind the toxic excesses of early 20th Century liberalism — you know, the fine folks who enthusiastically took up the eugenics movement.

No, he didn’t call for sterilization of the unfit. But he did advocate a return to the Good Old Days when there were asylums to warehouse the many, many types of people deemed “unfit” for proper society.

He did his level best to craft a frame of compassion around this appalling idea, but it didn’t work. When you start talking about removing certain people from society, you are headed down a dangerous road.

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