Fred Siegel’s The Revolt Against the Masses
“The Monica Lewinsky affair was the end of Clinton’s centrist idyll. Clinton was forced to appeal to the identity-politics clarisy ─ the public-sector militants, the African-American and feminist leaders and their academic, political, and media allies ─ who got to decide whether a particular action was racist or sexist, in order to preserve his presidency from the foolish Republican attempt to impeach him over the affair.” ─ The Revolt Against the Masses, copyright © 2013 by Fred Siegel, Encounter Books, Page 186.
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“…it was not lost on the public that if the president had been a Republican, Clinton’s actions in the Lewinsky affair would have been condemned as a classical abuse of male power. Liberal feminists’ efforts to exonerate Clinton only reinforced the public’s disdain for feminism in particular and liberal double standards more generally.”
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“The game of double standards left Democrats in a vulnerable position when they were forced to confront Islamism after 9/11. For many liberal Democrats, the real enemy, after all, the only one for whom they felt wholehearted hostility [and still do, albeit more intensely], was across the aisle. Loyalty to party had become as intense, or more so, than loyalty to ideology or religion or nation in an earlier time.” ─The Revolt Against the Masses, copyright © 2013 by Fred Siegel, Encounter Books, Page 187.
