Is There a Liberal Movement?

I rarely make it past Politico’s headlines—the site’s zero-sum view of politics and relentless hyping of partisan gamesmanship is often laughable—but the other day a subhead in my RSS reader caught my eye: “He also calls Obama a ‘movement liberal.’”

Now, I don’t really care about achingly dull Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who was being interviewed by Newsmax (yet another cauldron of empty rhetoric in the conservative echo chamber). What does interest me is his formulation: Obama as a “movement liberal.”

What on Earth is a “movement liberal?” (more…)