One reason generational patterns repeat is that Washington ignores history.
Reporters "go native" on their Washington sources, internalize the assumptions of the people they cover, and treat new movements with the cynical contempt of castle lords facing a plebeian rabble.
Some 40 years ago conservative Republicans were being lectured to by their Washington party that they were too doctrinnaire, that they were too extreme, that they should follow their leaders if they wanted power, and would never win if they demanded orthodoxy.
So the parting on the right is now a parting on the left, and it's the Netroots who are being lectured in the same way. The response to that lecture should be clear.
Netroots to Blogometer: We're not your monkey.
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