from Victor Hanson at National Review, Proper liberal credentials trump all the usual forms of identity politics.

It is hard to be a progressive in a sea of capitalist lucre, or an idealist when careerism pays so much better, or personally frugal when personal excess is contextualized and made guilt-free by an abstract selfless agenda.

In truth, party-line, elite liberalism is mostly about careerism and embracing a loud ideology that trumps every other progressive and identity-politics agenda. Politically correct leftism is a career investment — a sort of insurance that indemnifies one against every sin, from carbon-spewing travel and politically incorrect gaffes to Wall Street profiteering and1950s-style sexual loutishness.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429591/doctrinaire-liberalism-paradoxes

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