Walzer is wary of McCain’s sudden turn to the right.

Question: What is the most dangerous idea in this campaign? 

Michael Walzer: Well, McCain is increasingly trying to run as a Republican after having been a maverick, almost an independent for the past 8 years, and therefore he is saying a lot of things which I think are wrong and dangerous. He is defending tax cuts that he voted against. He needs--if he’s to win the nomination, and if he is to run as a Republican candidate--he needs to convince the base, the Republican base, that he is one of them having not been one of them for some period of time. And so he is saying a lot of things which I hope he doesn’t believe. He is defending tax cuts that he voted against. He is no longer as passionately against torture as he has been in the past. He is defending a policy on anti-welfare politics which I also hope he doesn’t believe, but all of those would be dangerous because they are the continuation of a Republican program that has brought the country into state of radical unfairness and inequality Recorded on: 2/27/08