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Article: Under Peter Beinart, a New New Republic
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- The Washington Post
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- February 24, 2003
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The New Republic sees the Democratic Party these days as an
assortment of duplicitous, racially hypersensitive war wimps.
"You guys are doing Karl Rove's work for him," one Democratic
strategist recently groused to Editor Peter Beinart.
The 31-year-old Yale graduate seems to welcome the criticism. "The
Democratic Party has returned to some of its bad habits. . . . We
want to be the place that pushes back," he says.
That aggressive posture has forged a new role for the liberal
magazine that strongly backed Al Gore, a longtime friend of owner
Marty Peretz, against George Bush. On foreign policy, says Beinart,
"Bush has turned out to be a better president than I thought."
As if to certify the ...