Liberal demonizing of the left has typically led to the worst state repression in USA history (Wilson's jailing of Debs, Truman's loyalty oaths empowering McCarthyism, JFK/LBJ spying on MLK empowering J. Edgar Hoover's war against Civil Rights). https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1278341916539662337 …
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Attacking liberals has proven to be a terrible electoral strategy for the left. Among other things, it helped get us Nixon and Trump. Its consistent failure should perhaps be kept in mind, too.
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In contrast, the most sustained moments of progressive reform -- the New Deal and the Great Society -- came at moments in which liberals and the left figured out ways to work together. And, yes, it takes two to tango.
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He's pretty consistently attacking Trump.
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Thanks for Reagan, Bush, and Trump. Hope the jobs at the Nation and the penthouse cocktail party invites were worth it.
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Some factions of the left *should* be attacked and not merely for electoral political purposes but because their ideas are dangerous.
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