https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/18/the-liberal-gloat/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:33:18 -0400<![CDATA[But if conservatives don’t acknowledge the crisis’s economic component, liberalism often seems indifferent to its deeper social roots. The progressive bias toward the capital-F Future, the old left-wing suspicion of faith and domesticity, the fact that Democrats have benefited politically from these trends — all of this makes it easy for liberals to just celebrate the emerging America, to minimize the costs of disrupted families and hollowed-out communities, and to treat the places where Americans have traditionally found solidarity outside the state (like the churches threatened by the Obama White House’s contraceptive mandate) as irritants or threats.]]>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:30:06 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/18/the-liberal-gloat-n97583