For Democratic politicians and pundits this resistance to
Trump might at first have seemed like a good thing, but Beinart’s article and
the reaction to it suggest that liberals are starting to have second thoughts.
By David L. Wilson, MRonline
July 3, 2017
On June 20 The Atlantic posted an article by Peter
Beinart claiming that the Democrats had “lost
their way on immigration.”
Beinart is a respected liberal centrist—of the sort that
supported the 2003 Iraq
invasion until it started going bad—so the article created a stir among
opinion makers. Rightwingers at Breitbart
and National
Review gloated. Liberals took Beinart’s thesis to heart: Mother
Jones’ Kevin
Drum endorsed the article, and Thomas
Edsall quoted it in the New York Times. A Chicago Tribune
columnist cited it as an “important
essay.”
It’s true that Beinart makes some
good points.[…]
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