Jon Chait has a great interview with Adam Gopnik. Chait has been haranguing against PC culture so long it's become a schtick. Gopnik does a better job of explaining the radicalism of liberalism. As Gopnik writes in his book, "Liberals get nothing accomplished except everything eventually." That incrementalism that is a hallmark of political pluralism and liberalism is unappealing, especially to younger radicals who have failed to live through enough history to see that those small incremental changes add up over time. The needle moves, the ship turns.
Worth a read.
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