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Dec 08, 2017bwinlr rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Just finished this, and promptly bought a copy for my personal library because I think it's an important book. The author, Mark Lilla, a professor of Humanities at Columbia University, says a lot in 141 pages. One of the major themes of his book is "identity politics," and how the current incarnation of the Democratic Party has focused on that concept to its detriment over the last two decades. He also believes that the Reagan ideology and movement within the Republican Party is ending, and that both parties are floundering and searching for a vision for the future largely due to the malignant phenomenon of Donald Trump. Lilla is a progressive, and offers a possible path forward to make democratic liberalism more inclusive and politically successful. It's a good book.