The death and life of American liberalism: the right has shown that conviction beats vacillation. Can liberals acquire some spine?(15 YEARS OF LIBERAL INTELLIGENCE)
American Prospect, The, June, 2005 by Kuttner, Robert
"I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."
--Jon Lovitz playing Michael Dukakis, Saturday Night Live, October 1988
WHY ARE WE LOSING TO THESE GUYS? ON nearly every major issue, public-opinion polls show that the Bush administration and the Republican Congress are well to the right of the country. Yet George W. Bush got himself re-elected, with an enlarged majority in both chambers of Congress.
Let's cut to the chase. The big reason is that the right is a movement, 30 years in the making. And a movement culture is a habitat that allows grass-roots activists, ...
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