YUP! Ron Silver is a liberal who gets it.I guess that makes him a classical liberal?I dont think Miller is left at all.More to the right on so many issues.
I’m a great Miller fan, always have been, but he does drift left on some issues. Classical liberal does seem to fit Silver. I think Bush tends toward classical liberal too. I’ve always thought that “compassionate conservative” meant “oldtime liberal” and it wasn’t really his fault but ours if we misunderstood it—or, misunderestimated it. When I’m feeling good about Bush I shrug it all off. But I started my political life as a campaign volunteer for Barry Goldwater when I was 14 years old. So, whenever I’m pissed with Bush about something, I take the phrase “compassionate conservative” as a personal insult.