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>> And that isn't your idea of a paradigmatic liberal?
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> Not really. The paradigmatic liberal was devoted to civil liberties,
> modest redistribution, civil rights, etc. - in tortured and often
> contradictory ways, but with at least those professed allegiances. The
> ACLU, ADA, etc. Precisely the sort of thing the DLC was organized
> against. In that fight, Obama's on the side of the DLC.
More than that. Henry Wallace called himself a liberal. The New Republic that radicalized Carrol Cox in the sixties called itself liberal.
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