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Toward the beginning of the Reagan Administration, Secretary of the Interior James Watt remarked that though he used to think there were two kinds of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, he had now become convinced that we were divided into Americans and liberals. Just a few short years after that neofascist invocation, Mike Dukakis fled from the “L word” as though he had been accused of card-carrying Communism; and now Bill Clinton is doing the same. Liberal-baiting has replaced redbaiting as the favorite pastime of venomous conservatives.
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© 2014 Philip Green
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Green, P. (2014). A Few Kind Words for Liberalism. In: American Democracy. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381552_5
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