lost Kos

I’m not a Kos fan (as I wrote here and here and here). I think he’s a destructive force in politics and a disaster for the Democrats. I’ve been saying for a while that the demand for ideological purity is political poison. Jonathan Chait makes that point as well here, in his ongoing TNR feud with Kosistan. But the really delicious part is this:

In good revolutionary style, Kos ends with a ringing declaration that TNR remains dead and victory for people-power is at hand. “It is now beyond clear that the dying New Republic is mortally wounded,” he writes. Where once it was clear, now it is beyond clear, and where once we were dying we are now both dying and mortally wounded.

N.Z. Bear is merciless:

When it was over, the formerly glorious DLC was but a smoking ruin, its leadership having fled into hiding under assumed names to live out the rest of their pathetic existences with heads hung in shame from the ignominious defeat visited upon them by the Power of Kos.

In a TTLB exclusive, I managed to locate one such leader, Hillary C, who agreed to speak with me under condition that I not reveal her location (especially to her estranged husband, who was famously spared by Kos after he pledged fealty to the One True Progressive Cause). I can say that she now resides in a small Midwestern city, earning a humble living as a Traffic Enforcement Officer (meter maid) , having been previously dismissed from her position as a Wal-Mart greeter for being “tempermentally unsuited” to the role.

And he provides a cornucopia of links here.