The news is filled with speculation about whether Obama's mainstream Cabinet choices are going to alienate his leftwing base. The commentators aren't sure how to phrase this. Contessa Brewer on MSNBC used the words far left and liberal, as I recall. I was hiking with one of my leftwing cell-mates today and he said that the word liberal had been successfully destroyed in the 80s and 90s, but that "progressive" is very cool. Huh. And I notice that David Remnick implicitly seemed to include himself in that category in his Obama piece last week, the progressive category. Maybe the new orthodoxy? A ver, as my revolutionary buddies say in Spanish.
