The NYT paraphrasing Tony Judt:
Oddly enough, Mr. Judt writes, the left and right have swapped political modes. The right has become radicalized, abandoning the “social moderation which served it so well from Disraeli to Heath, from Theodore Roosevelt to Nelson Rockefeller.” It’s the left that now has something to conserve, “the institutions, legislation, services and rights that we have inherited from the great age of 20th-century reform.”
More Judt, previously.