Jim Weinstein was the lefty's lefty, an unabashed socialist. But he was no ideologue. He was an intellectual who participated in, observed and dissected most every major twist and turn of the American left. He was a public intellectual who believed that compromise and winning [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Unfortunately, Melissa Bean has turned out to be anything but “progressive”.
I wonder what he would say about that.
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