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‘[L]iberalism is not a belief at all … it’s a badge of certain social aspirations’

November 20, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Ed Driscoll rounds up the latest examples.

As Sonny Bunch at the increasingly impressive Washington Free Beacon writes:

A badge of certain social aspirations,” yes, but something else too. Liberalism and affiliation with the Democratic Party, for these people, is less a series of policy ideas than an almost-religious belief system. Distancing oneself from heretics thus takes on special importance. And how better to show your fellow believers that you are Good than to use the most important news outlet in the entire world to run down your relatives who believed Bad things?

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