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.
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| Anti-Trump Protesters in New York. Photo: Marty Goodman |
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 Breitbartand 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 Tribunecolumnist cited it as an “important essay.”
It’s true that Beinart makes some good points.[…]
Read the full article:
https://mronline.org/2017/07/03/are-liberals-having-second-thoughts-about-immigration/
https://mronline.org/2017/07/03/are-liberals-having-second-thoughts-about-immigration/
