In short, if Democrats hope to continue appealing
to libertarian-leaning voters, they are going to have to up their
game. They need to ask themselves: Are we content with being a
brief rebound fling for jilted libertarians, or do we want to form
a lasting relationship? Let me make a case for the second
option....
Liberals and libertarians already share considerable common
ground, if they could just see past their differences to recognize
it....
It must be based on a real intellectual movement, with
intellectual coherence. A movement that, at the philosophical
level, seeks some kind of reconciliation between Hayek and
Rawls.