fromSlate Magazine
2 days agoHow Liberalism Became a Dirty Word
Absolutely. I think one of the most extraordinary things that's happened to the United States in recent years is that this demonization of "liberalism" that I associate with, let's say with Ronald Reagan-people saying "liberal, liberal, liberal," in order to say liberals and namby-pamby people are against our values, that started out as a political strategy. And it was about gaining short-term power by demonizing a certain sort of people, but then they tended to be fairly patrician elites.
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