Life's Better Ideas

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Tough Liberalism

The fundamental divide is whether you believe that jihadist totalitarianism is produced by a lack of freedom and opportunity, or whether you believe that jihadist totalitarianism is created by American and Western imperialism. The Democratic Party has not fundamentally, internally decided about which of those it believes. Much of the Kerry campaign's inability to be totally coherent on these issues was, I believe, an attempt to straddle rifts in the party that had not yet come to an honest debate on this basic question.

Author Peter Beinart says the Democrats need to answer those questions before they can win the White House. HT oliverkamm

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