I don’t know if David Sirota represents any larger trend besides David Sirota, but if he does, this post is enough to put me off of it. If I wanted wild, Know-Nothing rantings against policy journalists as “elitists with cushy jobs,” I’d vote Republican.
Trade policy seems the bone of contention here, and I’m wondering if Sirota and others’ anti-free-trade bluster represents a possible future split in the party along those lines or not. After all, it’s one thing to point to polls to show potential voter majorities on certain trade issues, another thing to act as if the Democratic Party can do without its members (establishment or rank-and-file) who are free traders. How would this party unity be enforced? By running a separate slate of candidates, a sort of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party for global justice? Hopefully, this hullabaloo is merely airing out of discontent and the Party will find a way to bridge over the trade split.
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