Thoughts From the Radically Moderate

Chapter of the Day:A New Liberalism

I plan on giving a brief summary of every chapter that I read in Peter Beinart's The Good Fight. In the first chapter, Beinart takes us back in time to the split of the Democratic party--the liberal civil war. The war between communists and communist sympathizers against anti-communist liberals. The first chapter basically takes us through time and describes the developments and changes in the Democratic Party. The first chapter is really about fighting totalitarianism at home as well as abroad. The Liberal belief at the time was this: The more freedom and liberty we have at home provides more stability in international affairs advocating for liberty against communism. It pointed out specific examples like Civil Rights and allowing communist to live in the United States. This is certainly proving to be a good book. Unlike a lot of political books where I feel like the author is speaking to me, in this book, I feel like I am a part of the story and that I'm not listening to Beinart, but I'm in the midst of the history. Anyways, enough out of me. That's what I've read so far, and I'll be giving updates on the second chapter tommorrow.