The American 'left'

I'm sure you all read E.J. Dionne anyhow. If you don'tt, do. Let me just point out that, though what he lays out here is mostly indisputable, I'm still in a (hopefully temporary) post-SiCKO funk, and need to vent some worries. As you'll see in the movie, Moore documents, in his inimitable way, just how the forces of anti-socialist fearmongering--that is, the most despicable peddlers of right-wing propaganda--aligned to destroy Hillarycare to serve completely selfish ends. More than a decade later, you can still read Larry Kudlow once or twice a week at The Corner pushing the same nonsense vis-a-vis Clinton's plan to reverse Bush's tax cuts on the wealthy. It's a specific example of the sort of artillery I imagine the entire right-wing infrastructure will deploy after the conventions and that's just for Hillary Clinton.

Over the past several months I've convinced myself that now's a ripe time to get a progressive candidate into the White House, and I think I still believe it is. I've come to believe that the religious base of the GOP has been largely de-energized and won't be terribly riled by this kind of economic hysteria. But, in my newfound malaise, I want some insightful op-ed writer to assure me that my instincts weren't misguided. E.J.?