Theorists on the right and the left have tried to inflate a few policy disputes into national emergencies.
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Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump walks at a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa., November 4, 2024.
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This week, it is Thomas B. Edsall who wonders if liberalism is doomed, citing two books that are sharply critical of the center-left elite as an indictment of liberalism itself. Self-professed liberals have lost touch with the working class (true). Suddenly, liberals are facing challenges from populists on the right as well as a critique from the left, in the name of socialism.
Edsall avers:
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Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.
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This week, it is Thomas B. Edsall who wonders if liberalism is doomed, citing two books that are sharply critical of the center-left elite as an indictment of liberalism itself. Self-professed liberals have lost touch with the working class (true). Suddenly, liberals are facing challenges from populists on the right as well as a critique from the left, in the name of socialism.
Edsall avers:
About the Author
Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.
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