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How to Do Politics Well

ReImagining Liberty

CHAPTER

The Left Is More Noble Than the Progressive Left

The left is generally more noble the progressive left in terms of the ends that they direct political power towards. The problem with the left then is not necessarily the ends to which they direct the state or that they they have in mind when they are directing it but instead I think far too many in the left fail to take seriously the nature of the state as a tool. They kind of hand wave that away and instead imagine the state is just this kind of consensus mechanism. It's us working together. Any problems it has is just because we don't have the right people in charge, he says.

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