But the alternative to a socialist liberalism need not be conservative. Some conservatives say modern liberals betrayed the earlier tradition, and some progressives agree. Neither assertion is true, but the mythology is steering policy makers in the wrong direction, From Crisis to Working Majority Stanley B. Greenberg Reports of the death of teh Demopcrats are greatly exaggerated. Three new books, despite their authors' pessimism, suggest how to reconstruct the party's middle-class foundations. The shift of mentally ill patients out of institutions hasnot worked out the way supporters of deinstitutionalization wanted.
Some neoconservatives think so.