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Liberals

• July 28 -- Nagourney Spots Liberal Views When Cameras Are Off
Adam Nagourney picks up on some ideological massaging by the Democrats in their speaker line-up for Tuesday night, which the broadcast networks did not air live: "The show was different on Tuesday. It was a night to cheer Howard Dean and Edward M. Kennedy, two liberal icons in the Democratic Party….But when the attention of the networks slipped away, this has in many ways been a familiar kind of Democratic convention, providing a forum to the groups and interests that have long been central to the Democratic coalition…."

• July 27 -- G.O.P. "Pushed Toward Extremism"
Matt Bai pens a cover story for the Times Sunday magazine, citing the intolerance and intemperance resulting from the conservative activism of the 1970s: "…the national dialogue, as a result, has grown less temperate and less tolerant." Bai then warns that new left-wing groups may some day become as "extremist" as the conservatives.

• October 27 -- Republican Party "Most Extreme" Ever
Contributing writer James Traub rationalizes the Bush-bashing tomes taking over the best-seller lists: "Our political culture has not been infected by some virus from outer space, or from TV. The carrier was Newt Gingrich….Gingrich brought delegitimation to the core of G.O.P. strategy….The politics of delegitimation worked, at least in the short term. Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in 1994…Today's Republican Party is arguably the most extreme--the furthest from the center--of any governing majority in the nation's history."

• July 7 -- Democrats Are Too Good for the World
James Traub writes: “Maybe Democrats are just nicer, but a more philosophical view is that liberals are committed to, are in fact bedeviled by, ideals about process that do not much preoccupy conservatives, at least contemporary ones. Liberals put their faith in such content-neutral principles as free speech, due process, participatory democracy. Is that too lofty?” Ask a campus conservative about liberal love of free speech, or Robert Bork about liberal love of due process.