1) A quick intrusion into the fascinating ongoing debate between @DouthatNYT and @AdamSerwer, if I may.
Douthat seems to want to dethrone, or at least downgrade, the role of liberal constitutionalism and liberal democracy as a historical force for progress.
I mean, I'm following, & after all I'm both a big Lincoln partisan & on the Frenchist side of the Right. I just think the back & forth over Ross' framing is much ado about very little. And I don't see how it helps the progressive case against classical liberalism.
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Hard to say what Douthat's full meaning is. He's covering lots of ground and gives that point short-ish shrift. It does seem to me that he's trying to downgrade the role of liberal constitutionalism as a force for progress. 1/
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On classical liberalism, I'm of the belief that we progs can compromise with it, though we'll argue over what that compromise looks like. (But I'm a bit of a squish.) 2/2
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