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Establishment liberals express a fascinating rage--and rage is the right word--against Nader in An Unreasonable Man. Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman, along with a host of former Nader's Raiders, attack Nader, a man they profess to have once admired. The most common charge is that Nader is an egomaniac. Their anger is the anger of the betrayed. But they were not betrayed by Nader. They betrayed themselves. They bought into the facile argument of "the least worse" and ignored the deeper, subterranean corporate assault on our democracy that Nader has always addressed. The anger they express is the anger of an exposed liberal class.

--Chris Hedges, "Death Of The Liberal Class", pages 178