Honest opinion about government from John Leo:
The minority liberalism of the New Deal narrowed and hardened into a sectarian movement that Prof. William Galston of the University of Maryland calls "liberal fundamentalism." It was presided over by a top-bottom coalition of elite professionals and the poor, with less and less room for the middle class and the working class and their values. Along the way, a great many Democrats came to see the party as indifferent, if not hostile, to their moral sentiments and not much interested in their economic struggles either….
…[G]alston, in a paper, co-authored with Elaine Kamarck, warned that for many Americans, "Democrats are part of the problem: Democrats have become the party of individual rights but not individual responsibility, of self-expression but not self-discipline, of sociological explanation but not moral accountability." That helped keep the national party out of touch with voters for a generation.
U.S. News and World Report, Dec. 7, 1992
An outspoken critic of contemporary liberalism, John Leo writes a column entitled "On Society," which regularly appears in U.S. News and World Report.
Quotation and short bio from The Quotable Conservative: The Giants of Conservatism on Liberty, Freedom, Individual Responsibility, and Traditional Values. Rod L. Evans and Irwin M. Berent, editors. Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing, 1996.