Progressives have to make sense of confronting a radical opponent, because the American Right is now radical, and the president is their standard-bearer. How else to describe an administration committed to changing taxation and social insurance root and branch, revising the basic rules of international order, and remaking faraway societies by force? And, not to forget, an administration willing -- indeed, seemingly delighted -- to bankrupt the country and jeopardize our authority in global currency markets in pursuit of these… more
