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George McGovern, Libertarian Hero
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The venerable former senator and failed presidential candidate George McGovern, who at 90, is being remembered by many friends and foes alike as the archetypal ultraliberal.
McGovern, they say, effectively turned the Democratic Party over to wild-haired incompetents and left-wing dreamers whose extremism ultimately set the stage for the Reagan “revolution” and the rise of a right-of-center America.