Forging A Left-Right Coalition

Forging a Left-Right CoalitionIt isn't easy to know, these days, just what is happening in American politics. This dawned on me as early as 1966, when I covered the campaign of Robert Scheer, the New Leftish Ramparts magazine editor, who was then running for Congress--in the Democratic primary--from the Oakland-Berkeley district of California. Scheer, an outspoken anti-war candidate, was not running against some right-winger nor even against a Republican Babbitt but against Representative Jeffer...