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A few weeks after John Kerry’s defeat in the 2004 election, Peter Beinart published an essay in The New Republic, the magazine he then edited, called “A Fighting Faith.” The phrase originated with Whitman and was lifted from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,’s 1949 book “The Vital Center,” a battle...