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a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good
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Recent Examples of liberalism
While the Bay State isn’t on the ballot, in many ways the state’s brand of liberalism is and whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins will have a dramatic impact on the fortunes of ambitious local Democrats and the state’s voters.
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Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2024
In a state where a blue supermajority in the state Capitol has boasted about making life better for the neediest residents, making life easier for a billionaire’s party room is out-of-touch liberalism at its worst.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
The second was the rigidities of liberalism, with its emphasis on the individual at the expense of the network of relations in which that person was embedded.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2024
In a state where a blue supermajority in the state Capitol has boasted about making life better for the neediest residents, making life easier for a billionaire’s party room is out-of-touch liberalism at its worst.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
The second was the rigidities of liberalism, with its emphasis on the individual at the expense of the network of relations in which that person was embedded.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Liberalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberalism. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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