During the same period when Democrats should have been extending their base, the Left avoided any form of intellectual clarity. Stung by the failure of Marxism in the first half of the twentieth century, the Left turned away from ideology to a mushy "everything goes" relativism. Remember the classic speech by Jesse Jackson in 1988 at the Democratic National Convention when he called for a new "quilt" that would incorporate everyone together into the Democrats, but without any ideological coherence? How could a crazy quilt welcoming both doves and hawks attract people?
Perhaps instead of a quilt, he should have called it a seamy garment.
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