James writes:
Aw, come now, Mr. Klein, you prude, you puritan, you. Who said relationships have to be meaningful and compatible?
I didn’t. Lindsey did. Specifically:
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.