The advantage of liberalism was that it could never quite define itself, writes William Voegeli. “We’re
in favor of a lot of things and we’re against mighty few,” Lyndon Johnson assured us.
Yet, to develop a new narrative, Democrats must get off their current reflexive support
of the mothering welfare state.
Tell us where it will all end,
hectors Voegeli. Tell us when you’ll be finished nannying us and lecturing us, as if Democrats could ever do that. Don’t drink from the
cup Hamlet, just don’t do it!
Notice that conservatives have the opposite problem. Once they have
put the ownership society in place and restored a modicum of respect for the rule of law, who needs them?
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