Uh… what?
McCabe already has something like $5,000,000.
But, yeah, the use of “neoliberal” there is a bit questionable. It’s more of a straight liberal thing.
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Archive trawling again, from just before the Garland nomination:
I should change my name to Cassandra.
Western media grovelling to the architect of the Yemeni famine continues:
CEO of the ADL, for fuck’s sake.
Interesting piece from the Guardian
This is the challenge to those of us who are styled as “moderates” or “centrists”. The very labels speak of tactical orientation relative to someone else’s moral position. To the ideologically devout, appeals for moderation from the centre sound like demands to compromise on principle, to retreat from the right path for the wrong reason. In a climate where the religious mode dominates, the secular style is cast as soulless, insincere, lacking moral anchor.
But moderation is not just a dilution of someone else’s ideal. It is the discipline that tests the merits of one idea against a sincere evaluation of its opposite. And the centre is not just a mid-point on the spectrum from left to right, liberal to conservative. These days it is better understood as a culture and a habit of mind. It is the place where holders of divergent opinions can meet without becoming implacable enemies.
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