Again excellent & I would add: these rightwing crusades against liberalism only gain traction when liberals out of cravenness & opportunism join in the anti-left agitation: as in Wilson and Truman administrations or recent mainstreaming of anti-PC & anti-cancel culture discoursehttps://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1393182626299748353 …
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Sometime the charge of weakness sticks, and sometimes it doesn’t. In retrospect “Carter the neolib”might seem convincing, but what’s the causality? “I don’t like Carter so I’ll vote for this b-movie actor instead to get more of what Carter is doing”?
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Carter's neolibalism led to a significant primary challenger from the more liberal Ted Kennedy, which was a big factor in weakening Carter (including some of his votes going to John Anderson). More broadly, embrace of austerity & Volcker shock caused economic pain which hurt JC
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