Part of its narrowness and — I think — the lack of its appeal to the wider electorate is the way that Labour exchanged the work of achieving greater dignity and material equality for ordinary working people, for a narrower liberal end of identity equality, giving the impression that equal legal rights, not better social or economic outcomes, are the chief ends of progressive politics. (politics.co.uk)
Acknowledging that Niebuhr was a bold Cold Warrior, Lemert pauses to wonder how a good liberal ended up writing a book defending him. (firstthings.com)
I think he was saying radical liberal ends are best achieved through modernized social democratic means... which may refer to democratic republicanism. (nextleft.org)