Picking Up the Pieces

I write a few days after the election, you will read this some weeks later. By the time you do, there will have appeared endless analyses, ranging from the trivial to the profound. And by the time you reach these lines you will probably be sick of explanations, theories, impressions.

So let me move very quickly past the obvious causes of the McGovern defeat, then discuss some of its underlying implications, and finally come to some problems of the liberal-left in the coming years.

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