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The Lamonts, Governor Ned Lamont and his lovely wife Annie Lamont, an accomplished money-making investor, have been with us a long while. Ned Lamont first entered politics under the sheltering wings of former Governor and U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican millionaire bumped by Connecticut Republicans way back in 1988 when they realized that Senator Weicker, who as governor graced the state with an income tax, was a Teddy Kennedy Democrat in disguise. Weicker served in the U.S. Senate for three terms from 1971 to 1989.

Weicker’s Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) rating during his last year in the Senate was ten points higher than that of U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, not a “moderate Republican.” Moderate Connecticut Republicans espied Weicker’s Democrat Party leanings when rarely subtle Weicker boasted of himself that he was “the turd in the Republican Party punchbowl.”

Neo-progressive revolutionists with knives in their brains, socialists teetering on the edge of communism such as Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, have left the Lamonts relatively untouched. The Lamonts are multi-millionaires who live in Greenwich, Connecticut, part of the state’s so called “Gold Coast,” a place where millionaires live and die in relative obscurity, safe from the torments that neo-progressives are fond of inflicting on redundant millionaires.

The evil-rich in Greenwich, now trending Democrat, want to live out their days in the state’s Gold Coast sanctuary in comfort, unruffled by Oscar Wilde’s remark that Americans are people who “know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Neo-progressives are, of course, full of Nietzschean “ressentiment,” a term in philosophy indicating a form of hostility directed toward an object perceived as the cause of one’s frustration or loss of power. More potent than envy, ressentiment is a hateful desire for revenge that arises from a sense of weakness, inferiority, or thwarted agency. The victims of ressentiment are often incapable of true wit or humor.

Most Democrats view Lamont’s reelection as a done deal, but before reelection he must run the neo-progressive knout. The anticipated primary between Lamont and Josh Elliott, a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives representing the 88th district since 2017, promises to be a humorless and witless affair. Elliott, as serious as a pile of rocks, has not been convincingly accused of committing humor.

Connecticut’s media has anointed Elliot with its prized neo-progressive affirmations. Elliot, we are told, is the founder and chairman of the Tax Equity Caucus, which works to ensure “fair taxation” in Connecticut. As elsewhere in the nation, the super-rich in Connecticut pay a disproportionate share of taxes. Millionaires pay a much higher share of federal taxes as a percentage of income than the general public, even if the dollar amount varies widely. Elliott has supported legislation to raise the minimum wage and guaranteed paid sick days for all workers; sponsored bills to reform the electoral system, including restoring voting rights for formerly incarcerated individuals and implementing ranked-choice voting; and championed the elimination of the religious exemption for MMR vaccinations for K-12 students. His gubernatorial campaign is laser focused on the advancement of neo-progressive policies to address problems that, some conservatives suspect, have been caused by neo-progressive politicians like Elliott and Mamdani.

With all the zeal of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland, Bill Buckley, the most respected conservative polemicist of his day, valiantly set out to exclude from the American conservative movement anyone lingering in anti-Semitic political hallways. He did so by publically rebuking leading conservatives, while providing a standard to gage Anti-Semitism in his short book In Search of Anti-Semitism.

Moderate Democrats in Connecticut – Lamont is reputed to be one – have not been as anxious to swab their decks of immoderate elements. Lamont lacks the necessary passion to attack with energy disabling extreme neo-progressive saboteurs in his party, a courtesy that may not be returned in equal measure by Elliot in what may turn out to be a bruising primary campaign.

Mamdani has shown neo-progressives that they might ascend to power positions within a once moderate Democrat Party provided they possess the requisite courage of their convictions. Marx, Lenin and Stalin, the Trinity of Soviet era socialism, were convinced, not without reason, that capitalists would finance their purchase of the rope necessary to hang the capitalists, invariably portrayed as the enemies of the working classes.

There appears to be no elbow room on Elliott’s left for pretentious Democrat moderates like the Lamonts. Ned affects neo-progressivism during political campaigns but, having secured office, it is anticipated he will revert to type. Both Annie and Ned are successful venture capitalist millionaires. Annie, in particular, appears to have done very well in financial money markets. We are told in a piece appearing in The Connecticut Centinal, that “independent journalists Tony DeAngelo and Professor Bob Swick have relentlessly documented a deeper, more troubling pattern: no-bid state contracts funneled to OAK-backed companies, official business conducted on a private family office server, suspicious Cayman Islands offshore vehicles tied to university foundation money, and a network of FOI-exempt nonprofits that shielded decision-making from public view.

Annie Lamont, we are told in her HT/FT bio, “co-founded Oak HC/FT in 2014. Prior to founding Oak HC/FT, Annie spent 28 years at Oak Investment Partners, where she served as a Managing Partner and led the healthcare and fintech practices. Over the course of her career, she has invested in category-defining companies across the healthcare and financial services industries, including Aspire Health, athenahealth, CareBridge, Devoted Health, iHealthTechnologies (which became Cotiviti), NetSpend, OneMedical, and VillageMD.”

No neo-progressive is she.

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