Dershowitz threatened to leave the Democrat party if Keith Ellison were voted to be the DNC chair. I half think Alan hoped that would have been the case so he could walk away from the Dem party. It is an enigma on where politically to put Dershowitz at this point. He certainly isn’t a contemporary “progressive” Democrat. I guess he is now some kind of moderate, looking for the straw that breaks the camel’s back. But he surely isn’t a conservative either.
I doubt, unless he's trashing a non-prog, his opinion matters to anybody.
Especially when he openly supports common sense more and more.
One radio host (and client) wondered why Dershowitz was "asking" for the wrath of the libs at his age.
In my opinion, Dershowitz is a dishonest, slime ball lawyer. His political opinions are leftist. I believe he was once a communist. He admired the former Soviet Union.
His most famous case was a really despicable performance in the OJ Simpson trial. There are few words that can describe how slimy and dishonest he was.
He was also dishonest in his defending Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson and others. It is amazing he has not been disbarred.
But just like a stopped clock is right twice a day, Dershowitz is much better than the MSM in his analysis of the causes of the problems in the middle east and how Trump is doing a good job.
“It is an enigma on where politically to put Dershowitz at this point.”
Most liberals today are dishonest and unprincipled, and simply take emotional knee jerk positions against whatever conservatives want. The result is that their positions are irrational and internally inconsistant
There are a few honest liberals though and I think Dershowitz is one of them. Make no mistake though, he’s still extremely liberal in that he doesn’t think free enterprise results in a fair distribution of wealth - he still advocates big government wealth redistribution.
But he’s honest, and when he see his own party cheating and lying he doesn’t want any part of it. Good for him - I admire that.
But he’s still a far left liberal.