Liberalism is undergoing a reckoning: the primary cleavage is no longer moderate Republican vs. Democrat but liberal vs. illiberal, with much deeper historical roots than the 1990s-2000s party divide; this cleavage likely persists indefinitely rather than being resolved or suppressed into disappearance, requiring ongoing vigilance without hopes for final victory.
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“It's now this liberal illiberal cleavage which probably has much deeper roots and there's not going to be an approach to suppression that's going to work and there's also not going to be any final victory over it. Right? You're just in this fight for the foreseeable future”
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