What opposition?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
American Prospect, The, December, 2006 by Zaretsky, Eli
BRUCE ACKERMAN AND Todd Gitlin call Tony Judt's claim ["We Answer to the Name of Liberals," November] that liberals have "acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign policy," "nonsense on stilts." Supposedly, they and their numerous cosigners "consistently and publicly repudiated the ruinous policies of the Bush administration." If, by "publicly," Gitlin and Ackerman are referring to dinner parties, then I must agree that liberals were vocal.
But if the term refers to political opposition of the sort that existed in ...
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