The "Againstocrats" And The No Deal

Back in February of 2005, William Voegeli wrote in Opinion Journal:

Lyndon Johnson gave one other memorable speech in 1964. At a campaign rally in Providence, R.I., he climbed onto his car, grabbed a bullhorn and summed up his political philosophy: “I just want to tell you this–we’re in favor of a lot of things and we’re against mighty few.” The Democrats’ problem is not that they, like “Seinfeld,” are a show about nothing. It’s that they are a show about everything, or anything. (At one point, the Kerry-for-president Web site referred to 79 separate federal programs he wanted to create or expand.)

Ruy Teixeira says that after 2004, “the bigger question is: What do the Democrats stand for?” Here’s a better and bigger question still: What do the Democrats stand against?

Fred Siegal answers Voegeli’s question, in a review of The Argument, a new book by New York Times liberal political correspondent Matt Bai. Siegel’s review is titled “The Againstocrats” and appears in City Journal:

The liberal billionaires, such as George Soros and Peter Lewis, and the bloggers, such as