John Edwards revealed his totalitarian streak tonight in the CNN Democratic candidates’ debate. Here’s Stephen Green’s live-blog entry:

5:21pm WHOA! “The only way they’re going to give up their power is if we TAKE it from them.” That’s John Edwards, talking about corporate America. That’s also the scariest promise I’ve ever heard a candidate make, since Joe Stalin ran for class President. Of course, Uncle Joe promised to “choke the vice principal with his own entrails,” which I can’t quite picture Edwards doing.

That’s almost as scary as Hillary Clinton saying Democrats, if they won the Congress, would take people’s property and income for “the common good.”