Where McGovern Bashing Gets Us
Writing in The American Conservative, occasional Reason magazine contributor Daniel McCarthy argues:
If Republicans and liberal hawks were correct in calling Obama a new McGovern, they only succeeded in proving how repellent most Americans, including many conservatives, find today's GOP. The trouble is, instead of the country getting George McGovern—a temperamental conservative, an anti-militarist, and a committed decentralist—we're getting Barack Obama, who dreams of another New Deal and picked Hillary Clinton as his chief diplomat. Somehow the neoconservatives and liberal interventionists prevailed again.
Bonus: Why pro-labor Dems hate McGovern.
