For Democratic politicians and pundits this resistance to
Trump might at first have seemed like a good thing, but Beinart’s article and
the reaction to it suggest that liberals are starting to have second thoughts.
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| Anti-Trump Protesters in New York. Photo: Marty Goodma |
By David L. Wilson, MRonline
July 3, 2017
On June 20 The Atlantic posted an article by Peter
Beinart claiming that the Democrats had “lost
their way on immigration.”
Beinart is a respected liberal centrist—of the sort that
supported the 2003 Iraq
invasion until it started going bad—so the article created a stir among
opinion makers. Rightwingers at Breitbart
and National
Review gloated. Liberals took Beinart’s thesis to heart: Mother
Jones’ Kevin
Drum endorsed the article, and Thomas
Edsall quoted it in the New York Times. A Chicago Tribune
columnist cited it as an “important
essay.”
It’s true that Beinart makes some
good points.[…]
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