The End of Loser Liberalism

Saturday 10 September 2011
by: Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | News Analysis
Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates. They have accepted a framing where conservatives want market outcomes whereas liberals want the government to intervene to bring about outcomes that they consider fair.