Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘#Liberal’ Anymore ? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/magazine/hated-by-the-right-mocked-by-the-left-who-wants-to-be-liberal-anymore.html
For the committed leftist, the ‘‘liberal’’ is a weak-minded, market-friendly centrist, wonky and technocratic and condescending to the working class. The liberal is pious about diversity but ready to abandon any belief at the slightest drop in poll numbers — a person who is, as the folk singer Phil Ochs once said, ‘‘10 degrees to the left of center in good times, 10 degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.’’
Mais le NYT, liberal par excellence, n’est pas tout à fait d’accord, d’où le commentaire de « naked capitalism » :
▻http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/07/links-7617.html
The idea that today, liberals and conservatives are two flavors of neoliberal seems to elude The Grey Lady.