I like the Nagle piece. As always it is timely, and elegantly puts into words what must be. It would be interesting to see how the lib pivot relates or not to geopolitics and China etc.
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Part of me screams for caution, though. Nagle correctly observes how leftist idealogues & their festering audience operate as street thugs for liberal political consolidation. She ventures that, as with Madame Mao after China's Cultural Revolution, when the left's job is done...
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it will be dispensed with. She predicts that their NGOs & propaganda mills will be reigned in, their funding limited. I am dubious about this & fear it may be wishful thinking. For one, this view assumes the existence of a hard split in US politics between leftists & liberals...
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One distinction is that China was what, ten or twenty years out from a genuine armed revolution. In that context the CR was part of setting norms for a society everyone agreed was new.
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