What You’re Seeing Is a Progressive Movement

There are going to be 1 million people in Grant Park in Chicago tomorrow night. (If Obama loses, imagine what they'll do to the city, then imagine what people will do to New York.) On MSNBC, Chuck Todd was saying there's a never-before-seen intensity in Obama's supporters: that they don't want anyone to go after their guy. I saw the cultlike army myself once, up close, and liked what I saw. Sarah Palin said just now in Missouri that the real America fights the wars, and the far left wants to take over the government. So she's feeling it too, and her crowd seemed thin. This is a progressive movement. We're Obama's base, and yes he's going to swing states and reaching out, but the base matters. Clinton's ideological base was the DLC, Bush's AEI. From to Frum. When will the papers get at the inner-political-intellectual-juice of this campaign. David Axelrod, said to be Obama's closest political adviser, is a Lower East Side Jew and a true movement guy. We're coming back in as a major force in American political life. It's been what, 35 years, or even 75.