Troll, He makes no actual distinctions, he doesn't even back up his claims with quotes from any of the people he lumps into his concept of the left--Typical Wall Street Journal editorial, in that it bashes academics and intellectuals and restates one of their favorite ideas, which is that the Ivory Tower crowd are fundamentally weak and anti-American--As a longtime Journal reader, I have seen this over and over again, in many different contexts, and find it to be one of the less likeable aspects of the publication--

The Journal readers themselves generally care little if anything about international politics and a lot about international finances-- they tend toward an odd and unconsidered sort of social liberalism, combined with the old Republican ideas of fiscal conservatism(which, cynically translated, means "keep government out of my business unless I need a bailout")--most have not even tried to reconcil the longstanding Wall Street need to expand international trade, with the American businessman's general tendency toward isolationism--

Not withstanding the fact that I think his editorial is generally wrongheaded--he does have an accurate sense of the fact that the Liberal and Left community are held together by a compulsion toward re-affirming what used to be called "The Party Line", no matter how absurd the context--

Don't get me started, Troll, because I may kick into my own anti-liberal rant, which I am trying to avoid, in the spirit of national unity--