At the end of piece last week tangentially related to President Obama's first 100 days in office but more about how the Democratic Party came through the primary battles and how the Republican party is, not so slowly, flushing itself down the tubes; Salon's Joan Walsh nailed today's political landscape and how it's viewed...
Sadly, the only people who are reliably missing how marginal the Republican party has become are the leading lights of the mainstream media. They report on John Boehner and McCain, Newt Gingrich and Palin, Grover Norquist and Michele Bachmann, as if they matter and make sense to most Americans. When will media elites turn to the real story: A modern American party is committing slow suicide, because it consciously chose a path of elitism and exclusivity, while the Democrats fought a brutal battle, but came back together around the values of inclusion and equity that the political success of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – and Michelle Obama – represent. No doubt Sojourner Truth is smiling.
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