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March 08, 2007
"Liberal" jumps the shark, part II
Re: My bemoaning the changing definitions of "liberal" - looks like John Podhortez is having the same problem.
. . . how can a man who has spoken against banning partial-birth abortion and signed civil-union legislation into law not be a social liberal? Here's why: Because as a matter of practical application, Rudy Giuliani offered the most dramatic example of programmatic conservative governance in recent American history. He didn't mouth platitudes about the need for civil public order in New York City. In the teeth of ferocious opposition from the liberal establishment and the elected political class in the city, he imposed it and he never backed down. Not when he was decried as a racist, not when he was denounced as a violator of civil liberties and free expression, not when he was mocked as a Babbitt.The man is an anti-liberal, as the word "liberal" has been defined since the late 1960s. That doesn't make him a social conservative. But it makes him an opponent of anything-goes liberalism, which is a position he shares with a great many social conservatives.
Now how do I boil that down enough to put it on the banner of this blog?
Judith | 03/08/07 at 10:05 PM | Categories: Liberal hawks and friends
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Your banner says 'hawkish liberal Jewish perspective.' The word 'hawkish' in the banner time stamps the word 'liberal.' So it doesn't mean 'liberal now.' Truman, a liberal, told the British he wasn't going to use force to keep the Saudis at a meager fraction of their oil revenue nor keep the Iranians from running their country. Yet, the first is in no sense a contradiction, he authored the Marshall Plan to oppose Stalinism and found Ridgway to lead American troops back up the Korean peninsula. You could commnet on his relation to yisrael. Thankfully, he wasn't successful in his national health plan.
michael | March 9, 2007 01:49 AM
I think the phrase you're looking for is "authoritarian liberal."
JewishAtheist | March 9, 2007 12:34 PM
