In USA Today, Jonah Goldberg has some thoughts on Hillary’s eschewment of the word “liberal” for “progressive”. Which is progress of a sort–the left avoids the L-word like the plague during every election, a trend which dates back a surprisingly long time. When I interviewed James Piereson recently, he mentioned Kennedy’s use of the “Missle Gap” fable to position himself as somewhat to the right of Nixon (and by extension, Eisenhower):
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Kennedy saw, partially because of his father
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