Todd Gitlin whitewashes 60's radicalism and his own past to white-wash Bernie, painting them all as LBJ liberals rather than real socialist radicals

The Bernie Sanders Moment

The New Left was not The New Deal and revolutionary Marxism was neither democratic socialism nor social democracy.

And despite the wishes and delusions of those who organized its mass outpourings, the anti-war movement was only about the war and, for that matter, mostly about the draft; it pretty much dried up and blew away when Nixon stopped sending draftees to Vietnam.

There are "liberals" who hate inequality per se and there are liberals who don't, but want to improve the lot of the least well off and for that matter "the 99%."

There are liberals who want to domesticate capitalism for the general good and "liberals" who would love to starve it, shrink it, and drown it in the bathtub.

There are "liberals" who were enthusiastic about Ho Chi Minh, Salvador Allende, Daniel Ortega, and Fidel Castro and liberals who deplored them all.

Putting it this way, I sort closer to the liberals.

Todd and Bernie and a whole lot of the survivors of the 60's sort with the "liberals."