by Patrick Appel
Beinart's pithy argument:
The more fundamental difference between the Obama era and its New Dealand Great Society predecessors is this: Back then, progressives did notdefine the left end of the political spectrum. In the 1930s and 1960s,America featured honest-to-goodness alternatives to capitalism,home-grown radical movements that scared the crap out of the Americanestablishment and sent some of its denizens scurrying into arms ofreformers like FDR and LBJ. Because our entire...
Published on July 12, 2010 15:42