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Thank you. For decades, the American Left and Progressives have claimed the moral high ground.

They are compassionate, caring, tolerant, all of those things that, well, we have learned in the last decade or so, or maybe the last several decades, they aren't. It was all an illusion of moral superiority. Is it coming to an end?

Welcome back to Issues, Etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about progressive claims of moral

superiority, Mark Hemingway, formerly served

as senior writer for the Weekly Standard, author of a recent column for the Federalist,

titled The Era of Presuming Liberal Moral Superiority is Over.

Mark, welcome back.

Glad to be back.

How were progressives in the left able to establish at least the illusion

of moral superiority that they've enjoyed for decades and decades?

You know, it's funny you're asking me this because despite the headline of my piece

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