Full Idea
Where conservatives believe in the renewal of traditional community, liberals believe as well in the flight from family and tradition into new kinds of communal order. …It is an idea of assembling confidence and energies for reform.
Gist of Idea
Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 1)
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.72
A Reaction
He cites Greenwich Village as an example. This suggests that his vision is a little narrow. His communities are for radicals who flee to join like minds in big cities. Politics must care about community for those left behind. Pubs, sport and pets.