Commentary

Is Liberalism Really Dead?

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, June 21 2012

Liberalism is dead. So says The American Spectator founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., who is invariably ahead of the curve in identifying macro-political trends. But is he correct this time? His track record is excellent. Decades ago he identified the “Liberal Crack-Up” before conventional wisdom recognized how insane the left had become; but then, just when the punditocracy thought the political right was riding high in the wake of the first Gulf War, Tyrrell wrote The Conservative Crack-Up to warn, correctly, that not all was well. In the wake of the 2008 Obama victory, when some…

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