Liberals from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama have been lying about their ideological agenda for generations and it’s all “a big con,” author and editor Jonah Goldberg tells Newsmax.TV.

Goldberg explores this idea in his new book, “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.” He said that for most of the 20th century liberals, “certainly from Woodrow Wilson and FDR to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, have insisted that they’re not ideological; that they don’t have some grand agenda; that they just care about what works; they’re pragmatists and empiricists; and they don’t care about all these ideological things and it’s just a bunch of nonsense.

“Of course they have an ideological perspective. There’s nothing wrong with having an ideological perspective. They just simply lie about it.”

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