The tarring of the real Right by associating them with the far Left is nothing new. The purveyors of social democracy always like to have a very narrowly defined debate. During his drive for war, Franklin Roosevelt claimed that there was a conspiracy between the isolationist Right and the Communist Party to prevent American intervention in Europe. More than 50 years ago, Arthur Schlessinger wrote The Vital Center, where he claimed the universal acceptance of the New Deal and Cold War liberalism was under attack by forces on the far Right led by Robert Taft and on the far Left … Continue reading Left, Right, Vital Center