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050		4	_aJC574.2 .U6 _bL56 2017
100	1		_aLilla, Mark,
245	1	4	_aThe once and future liberal : _bafter identity politics / _cMark Lilla.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_aix, 143 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntroduction: The Abdication -- Anti-politics -- Pseudo-politics -- Politics.
520			_aIn The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla offers an impassioned, tough-minded, and stinging look at the failure of American liberalism over the past two generations. Although there have been Democrats in the White House, and some notable policy achievements, for nearly forty years the vision that Ronald Reagan offered - small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism - has remained the country's dominant political ideology. And the Democratic Party has offered no convincing competing vision in response. Instead, as Lilla argues, American liberalism fell under the spell of identity politics, with disastrous consequences. Driven originally by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, the left has now unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than in party politics. Lilla goes to show how the left's identity-focused individualism insidiously conspired with the amoral economic individualism of the Reaganite right to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. In the contest for the American imagination, liberals have abdicated. Now they have an opportunity to reset. The left is motivated, and the Republican Party, led by an unpredictable demagogue, is in ideological disarray. To seize this opportunity, Lilla insists, liberals must concentrate their efforts on recapturing our institutions by winning elections. The time for hectoring is over. It is time to reach out and start convincing people from every walk of life and in every region of the country that liberals will stand up for them. We must appeal to - but also help to rebuild - a sense of common feeling among Americans, and a sense of duty to one another. A fiercely argued, no-nonsense book, enlivened by Lilla's acerbic wit and erudition, The Once and Future Liberal is essential reading for our momentous times. -- from dust jacket.
650		0	_aLiberalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLiberalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y21st century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y21st century.
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