Yglesias Award Nominee

"The notion liberalism is responsible for killing a billion people in the 20^th century is grossly irresponsible and ludicrous. I assume Phillips is saying American liberalism is synonymous with Nazism and Communism, that it is the animating ideology of Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, the Khmer Rouge, the Hutu militia, and countless other 20^th century genocidal killers and movements. This is not simply an ignorant statement (how he arrives at the figure of a billion people is impossible to know; as a reference point, the deadliest military conflict in history, took the lives of somewhere around 70 million); it’s quite an unhelpful one," – Pete Wehner, on Judson Phillips.