The fate of the American Dream, we are to understand, now depends entirely on the ability of government workers to get unionized and stay that way. I don’t throw around the word ‘unamerican’ casually. But what we have here is exactly what I predicted and feared — a successful attempt to mobilize the grassroots left around a category mistake. Liberals are now in a fateful position perhaps best described by Alan Wolfe, a man of the left whose Future of Liberalism is more relevant today than it was when it hit shelves two years ago.