And one of the few things the left shares with the right these days is its distaste for Nelson Rockefeller.
The Tory chaos surrounding Brexit is the point at which we realise how many fundamental values the left shares – on a spectrum from the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, to the architect of New Labour, Peter Mandelson (on the single market); and from Caroline Lucas, for the Greens, to the Lib Dems' Paddy Ashdown (on freedom of movement).
While Sean Wilentz provides a deft history of the extremist origins of contemporary conservative opinion, I would argue that the political left shares at least some responsibility for the dumbing down of dissent that we see today in Glenn Beck and the Tea Party ("Confounding Fathers," October 18th).
Marie, Ontario While Sean Wilentz provides a deft history of the extremist origins of contemporary conservative opinion, I would argue that the political left shares at least some responsibility for the dumbing down of dissent that we see today in Glenn Beck and the Tea Party ("Confounding Fathers," October 18th).
Needless to say, there are many on the left who share these negative assessments.
Worse still, where are the voices on the left who share my outrage that Greek democracy is overridden or ignored by the EU authorities?
There are many others on both the right and the left who share my sense of anger and frustration at cover-up after cover-up.
In Campania, the region around Naples, the left's share of the vote plunged from 62% to 43%—a damning judgment on its ten years in charge of the local administration.
I think that if you are a Tea Party member on the right or an Occupy advocate on the left, you share a common view that billionaires and big corporations should not be able to meddle with unlimited funds anonymously, behind phony screens, in our elections".
He posed a question along these lines, "If you know a bit more about the person on the left before sharing your phone, would you it make it easier to share?
