What Politician/Thinker from the "Other Side" Can "Your Side" Learn Most From?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I have a lot of respect for George P. Grant's work, as well as Tadano Makuzu, although part of the beauty of the latter is her focus on the problems of her own time and place and how she wed the theoretical and the pragmatic in discussing them.

I don't know what side Christopher Lasch is considered to have been on.

As far as political leaders go, I do admit some admiration for Charles de Gaulle, Aldo Moro, and Ikeda Hayato, although Ikeda was on the left wing of his party.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

As far as political leaders go, I do admit some admiration for Charles de Gaulle, Aldo Moro, and Ikeda Hayato, although Ikeda was on the left wing of his party.

The same goes for Moro. De Gaulle, while obviously not to the left of his own party, in many ways moved the French right to the left (decolonization, etc.).

I see. Well, I guess that kind of defeats the purpose of the question asked in this thread, then; that being the case, I would like to cite De Gasperi, actually, now that you mention him. Harold Macmillan, too.

What's your specific issue with Adenauer?