Liberal denial

Liberal denial is the tendency of liberals to conceal or deny that they are liberals, and even to object when identified as a liberal by someone else.

Hillary Clinton, for example, refused to admit in a presidential debate in 2007 that she is a liberal. Michael Dukakis refused for a while to admit that he was a liberal during the 1988 presidential campaign, until finally he declared himself to be a liberal in the sense that President Harry Truman, who served 40 years earlier, was a liberal.

There are also specific examples of liberals denying, for ideological reasons, facts that are plainly true:

1. that successful democracy, both historically and logically, is the result of Protestant Christianity^{[Citation Needed]}
2. that Lawrence Summers was fired as President of Harvard for making a politically incorrect suggestion about women and math aptitude
3. that Ronald Reagan's public exhortation, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" caused the nearly 30-year-old wall to be torn down later
4. that gun control may increase crime^{[Citation Needed]}
5. that group prayer is censored from public school

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