Tuesday, June 19, 2007

America's Left, no longer left for dead

Published: Tuesday June 19, 2007

For years in the United States, liberalism was the political persuasion that dared not speak its name, but now the Left is buzzing with hope and proclaiming the death of "the conservative era."

Republicans, from the 1980s onward, demonized even the term "liberal" as the left took a pounding. More recently, President George W. Bush's political guru Karl Rove was among those talking of a permanent conservative majority.

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