Umm, actually he specifically blasted those who think that the left should be close to Communism, and said that in his view the left needed to be the furthest thing from both communism and fascism. (I personally think that's kinda a silly scale, fascism and communism are virtually identical in practise, and only different even theoretically in the retoric they use, but that's not the point)
I don't agree with him on most things, but if the rest of the left thought like Beinart, I at least wouldn't be in 24hr panic mode. He at least recognize that America is not the enemy, and that we shouldn't be fighting over what America is, just what it should do.
He SAID that did he. Well that settles it. I just have to figure out what the difference is between the Liberal agenda and Communism. Perhaps gulags decorated by Martha Stewart.