by Josh Marshall
There is a long and recurrent tradition on the sectarian left that holds that the real enemies are not conservative parties of government, or the right or reaction but rather liberals. For the left to succeed liberalism must be destroyed and gotten out of the way. Perhaps the center-left is simply a stalking horse for the right, the second side of the same coin that keeps the system in power. Or perhaps they are too feeble and accommodating. But that is the basic vision. And again, it goes back more than a century in American politics and has analogues across Europe and other parts of the world.
Needless to say, the results of this theory in live experiments have quite dismal. But that doesn’t seem to matter.
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