Does Arnold Kling really believe this?
The Left is mostly a paper tiger at this point, as symbolized by the "nonbinding resolution" that they passed on Iraq. Kyoto and its successors are likely to be nonbinding resolutions. I expect a nonbinding-resolution approach to single-payer health care--I'm betting that the Left prefers whining about our health care system to taking responsibility for it.
Does he understand how the legislative process works? Liberals aren't eschewing policy action on these issues because they don't want to pass legislation, they're doing it because they can't.
Kling may want to leave Cato once in awhile and, you know, meet some liberals. I promise him they'd be perfectly happy to pass Medicare-for-All tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, if you actually believe that the Left doesn't want to expand government, but in fact simply wants to whine ineffectually about it, it would seem that libertarians generally and Cato in particularly could...relax.
