The Importance of Consensus in Political Liberalism

Political liberalism concedes that Rawls isn't going to be able to persuade everybody. What we need is an overlapping consensus among reasonable people on a more limited, purely political conception of justice. And this makes it much harder for distributive justice to meaningfully come out of Rawls' theory. If you have a notion of the reasonable that is very broad, then that's going to include points of view which don't imply the principle of Distributive Justice.