Patrician
06-22-2006, 09:50 PM
Excommunicated
by Jonathan Chait
Only at TNR Online | Post date 06.22.06
I realize that the new, counterintuitive thing to say about the left blogosphere these days is that it's not really that radical. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga says nice things about Mark Warner, which means he's really just a pragmatist (or easily co-opted, but the effect is the same). All this is mostly true. What this interpretation misses, however, is that the radicalism of the lefty bloggers lies not so much in their ideological platform but in their ideological style. They think like sectarians. And that style is on perfect display in Kos's attack on The New Republic....
http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=w060619&s=chait062206
by Jonathan Chait
Only at TNR Online | Post date 06.22.06
I realize that the new, counterintuitive thing to say about the left blogosphere these days is that it's not really that radical. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga says nice things about Mark Warner, which means he's really just a pragmatist (or easily co-opted, but the effect is the same). All this is mostly true. What this interpretation misses, however, is that the radicalism of the lefty bloggers lies not so much in their ideological platform but in their ideological style. They think like sectarians. And that style is on perfect display in Kos's attack on The New Republic....
http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=w060619&s=chait062206