![]() ![]() ![]() Republicans tempted to ridicule liberal snobbery might want to look in the mirror themselves, said Gerald J. He doesn’t seem to understand that Obama took the White House by cobbling together a classic liberal alliance of “upscale whites” and “lower-income minorities.” He also fails to account for the surviving strain of populism evident in some Democrats’ response to 2008’s financial crisis. “Siegel loses focus a bit when he gets to recent political history,” said Vincent J. He acknowledges that liberalism played a crucial role in ending state-sanctioned racial segregation, for instance: “The very alienation of liberals from the mainstream of American life,” he writes, “made them far more sensitive to the injustices of racism.” ![]() Actually, Siegel does give liberals some credit, said Barton Swaim in The Wall Street Journal. An accomplished historian, the former editor of City Journal has this time written a book “designed not to educate but to stoke the resentments of conservative readers.” Siegel selectively quotes from his targeted authors to fashion a simplistic, “sweeping left-wing indictment,’’ salting it with ideological diatribes the entire New Deal was a waste of time, he says, since the Great Depression would have resolved itself had government just stayed out of it. Siegel should be embarrassed, said Noah Millman in The New York Times. ![]()
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