What New Hampshire tells us
You will hear pundits analyze the New Hampshire primaries and conclude that the political 鈥渆xtremes鈥� are now gaining in American politics 鈥� that the Democrats have moved to the left and the Republicans have moved to the right, and the 鈥渃enter鈥� will not hold.
Baloney. The truth is that the putative 鈥渃enter鈥� 鈥� where the Democratic Leadership Council and Bill Clinton鈥檚 鈥渢riangulation鈥� of the 1990s found refuge, where George W. Bush and his corporate buddies and neoconservative advisers held sway, and where Barack Obama鈥檚 Treasury Department granted Wall Street banks huge bailouts but didn鈥檛 rescue desperate homeowners 鈥� did a job on the rest of America, and is now facing a reckoning.
The 鈥渆xtremes鈥� are not gaining ground. The anti-establishment ground forces of the American people are gaining. Some are so fed up they鈥檙e following an authoritarian bigot. Others, more wisely, are signing up for a 鈥減olitical revolution鈥� to take back America from the moneyed interests.
That鈥檚 the real choice ahead.
