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Peter Beinart Excoriates The Doughface Liberals Who During The Cold War Put Anti-imperialism Before Anti-totalitarianism And Demanded Total Moral Purity On The Part Of The United States, Thus Opposing Any Action In The Real World To Resist Soviet Expansionism. If The Democrats Were, As He Advocates, To Return To The Trumanesque Anti-totalitarian Liberalism That Held Sway In The Party From Roughly 1947 To 1972, The Party And The Country Would Be Better Off.

France Will Always Be France No Matter What, But America Involves Striving Toward An Ideal.

Bill Clinton Was A Liberal Who Could Appeal To Conservative-leaning Bubba Voters.

It's Worth Remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama Also Came In Thinking They Had The Magic Key To Better, Warmer Relations With Russia; Those Efforts Ended In Tears.

Al Gore's Performances Could Be A Case Study In Abnormal-psychology Classes.