Scott Galloway: "The wealthiest 1% are protected by the law but not bound by it, the bottom 99% are bound by the law but

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Wilhoit's Law of Conservatism:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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That would make a whole lot of sense. But in fact it’s the work of another Frank Wilhoit, this one not a professional scholar of American politics but a 63-year-old classical music composer in Ohio, who wrote the adage as part of a longer point in the comments section of the political science blog Crooked Timber. Since then, it has taken on a life of its own, recirculating on Twitter or Reddit every few months, most recently in reference to certain Free Speech Defenders’ aggressive posture on libel and defamation laws. A handful of sleuths have cracked the case before—Francis Wilhoit died in 2010; Frank Wilhoit posted his remark in 2018—but the confusion lingers, for obvious reasons.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

Galloway, as far as I can tell, adapted it for the 1%/99% earlier this year, and said it on CNN: https://www.instagram.com/profgalloway/reel/DHKj4amAKjm/