THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST?

Jonathan Last notes, "Liberals often get very upset at the suggestion that the excesses of liberalism are to blame—even in part—for the rise of the reactionary nationalist subculture."  Ed Driscoll complains that Mr Last is writing about the intersectional leftists, not Hubert Humphrey types, but that's not the history lesson today.

Rather, it's something the Hubert Humphrey types ought to understand on a gut level.  Whenever an opponent of voting rights or integrated schools labeled those causes as somehow "communistic," that simply made the rest of the communist appeal more attractive, whether to people who were being denied voting rights or to people who thought of the cause as just.

Perhaps it's not so much the "reactionary nationalist subculture" offering the most attractive message, as it is that nobody More Respectable will note the shortcomings of the New Dispensation.