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in short
If the election really turns on all this nonsense about patriotism and fear and resentment, etc., we all lose!
Isn't that clear?
That way madness lies, as has been manifestly demonstrated over the years.
The Democrats' problem hasn't been that they're not Rovian enough, but that they haven't stood up and argued passionately for a liberal agenda.
The Clintons sold out that agenda, conceding that "liberal" is a dirty word, and behold the result.
A party that has no compelling center around which to rally.
Win-at-all costs got us the Clinton 1990s, which, in my view, should be seen as part of the problem, not held up as some kind of gold standard to go back to.
But I freely admit, I'm an unabashed leftist.