Vincent Natrella, chairman of the Westchester County Conservative Committee, called the probable new chairman, James E. Cavanaugh, the supervisor of Eastchester, "a bright guy," but said his likely selection was just the latest example of a move by the Westchester Republicans in the direction of liberal Republicanism.
The bombing of Syria, for instance, was not a sudden lurch either in the direction of liberal interventionism, à la Bill Clinton in the lands that were once Yugoslavia, nor was it a sudden reassertion of a neo-con version of American power, à la both Bushes in Iraq.
He is neither a "reformist" nor a "modernizer", two words that are frequently misused by foreign observers when labelling a statesman who is believed to be steering country in the direction of liberal democracy and free market policies.
Consequently, the thesis remains that the potential for change in the direction of liberal and democratic society is built into the continuing function of free markets even in these long-standing one-party dictatorial states.
Liberal or conservative parties of a liberal persuasion have not traditionally had a strong commitment to redistributive policies.
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Best direction of a play.
"For some things, there was a 5-4 [vote] for constitutional rights and protections of vulnerable groups, and now they are going to go in the opposite direction," said Caroline Frederickson, president of the American Constitution Society, a liberal legal organization.
But it was also symptomatic of the lack of direction to Liberal Democrat policy or strategy under his leadership.
