" Under a cruel king, Burke argues, members of an oppressed minority “have the balmy compassion of mankind to assuage the smart of their wounds.” But under a tyrannical democracy, the public as a whole is against them. “They seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.”17 Their "

― Yuval Levin , The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left