Liberals Face A Hard Day’s Knight?
Author Adolph Reed argues that Democrats and liberals have become too fixated on election results, rather than aiming for long term goals that address the issues of economic inequality.
Via Moyers & Company:
That’s a pretty pathetic knight up there on the cover of the March issue of Harper’s Magazine. Battered and defeated, his shield in pieces, he’s slumped and saddled backwards on a Democratic donkey that has a distinctly woeful — or bored, maybe — countenance. It’s the magazine’s sardonic way of illustrating a powerful throwing down of the gauntlet by political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. He has challenged the nation’s progressives with an article in the magazine provocatively titled “Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.”
His thesis flies in the face of a current spate ...