Simple question

Is there an equivalent anywhere in the Republican world to “Rules for Radicals”?  If one wants to argue that Karl Rove borrowed from it in 2000, fine.  But did he create it?  And has there not been a widespread rebellion by grassroots Republicans at the acquisition of power without principle?

Where, among Democrats, is there an equivalent to the term RINO?  Where are the people saying “we have abandoned the workers”?  Where are the people saying “we have failed the blacks who voted for us all these years”?

To the extent Democrats are criticized internally, it is for not wanting government control of substantially every last aspect of the lives of Americans, at a national level, forever.

I can’t know what will happen.  None of us can.  But I feel absolute calm that I have chosen ideas–and to the extent I can find them, people–consistent with the ideas I have formed about goodness, the point of life, and the purpose of politics.

I have never seen a Democrat able to claim the same.  They can’t, not if they are honest about their recent past and present.