‘Liberals of today hew to doctrine in the face of the evidence’

This has been obvious to me for many years — here it’s put into words by Victor Davis Hanson:

“Among elite liberals today, all too few are of [the] classical mold — guided by reason and empirical observation. By far the majority are medieval and reactionary. By medieval I mean that they adhere to accepted doctrine — in this case, the progressive doctrine of always finding solutions in larger government and more taxes — despite all the evidence to the contrary. The irony is that they project just such ideological blinkers onto their conservative opponents.”

Read his article: “Medieval Liberals: Unlike classical liberals, the liberals of today hew to doctrine in the face of the evidence.”