Yep, we hear this right side of history meme from liberals a lot. We heard that meme a lot on the homosexual marriage issue, for example.
And we see liberals who believe they are superior and smarter than everyone else. Obama and other liberals have blamed election losses on not having adequately explained liberal policies to the American people.
So, in the view, liberalism is never rejected by people. Rather, they just didn’t understand how wonderful liberalism is, or else candidates didn’t do a good enough job of explaining liberalism to people.
In the liberals' view, liberals ARE "the people". If they don't win, that means that some oppressor of the people has got a temporary leg up and re-established a reactionary order. But "the people" will rise up and inevitably win.
A corollary of this idea is that liberalism is simply right by definition. Which is why they are so proof against logical challenges from the likes of us.
I saw Brad Pitt in an interview once saying that those who despise socialism have probably never been to a socialist country but he had and it was wonderful. I was amazed to learn that he had so little brainpower.
Or else the Russians did it.
>> Obama and other liberals have blamed election losses on not having adequately explained liberal policies to the American people.
Well, that’s one thing I sort of agree with them about. Only I think the reason more people aren’t conservative is because WE haven’t adequately explained conservatism to them.
Actually, I don’t believe that liberals really believe that. I think they know that they are all about propaganda. I think what they believe is that they haven’t propagandized enough and that they failed to plug the holes in the media (e.g., @theRealDonaldTrump) where the conservative message managed to get out.