There are real liberals around:
Eric Alterman at his relocated-to-Media-Matters Altercation site linked today to this article: Seeing Red: A Response to George Will by Thomas Edsall New Republic Online 09/25/06.
Alterman directs the comment to Howie Kurtz: "And as it happens, Edsall is hardly a liberal, bub. Just ask (or read) him.) "
I've thought just that ever since I read Edsall's book Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (1991). Yet we keep seeing him referenced as a liberal.
The piece he linked has Edsall complaning indignantly that George Will had called him a liberal. Among other things, Edsall confidently asserts, "the elite of the Democratic Party is as far from the ideological center as are the moralists of the Christian right"
Is he talking about the Democratic Party in the United States?
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