bleeding-heart liberal

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“Rafsanjani was no bleeding-heart liberal at the start of the revolution,” Shaul Bakhash, an Iran expert at George Mason University, told me.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 9, 2017

He started out, in his own words, as "a bleeding-heart liberal."

From Time Magazine Archive