hofstetter in particular was taken by stevenson.worked for the campaign in 52 in 1956.ff the bus he was a supporter of john f. kennedy, didn't want to get too close to the wheels of power. critical maintain a intellectual distance but look at the alternatives and dwight eisenhower, nexen, found them to be in some sense stayed, anti-intellectual. not interesting politicians. this argument about a kind of politics of style, where is it going to go? couldn't transcend the lack of identity? many conservatives make the argument that it couldn't. it collapsed because there was not enough substance to it. liberals take a different tack. liberals argue that modern liberalism has deep roots in the american past. you can go to the populism of the 1890's or post-enlightenment thinkers like thomas jefferson, james madison, and english all goodjohn locke, liberals. liberals make the argument what is happening in america is evolution of an older liberalism responding to the new deal. it does not represent a new phenomenon. it is an evolution of s