The now subsiding flap over the hit piece on MSOC in WaPo and the recent profane and heated debate in this blog got me thinking about Vietnam and the response of the left. I decided that just as Bushco learned nothing from the Vietnam failure, so have we on the left learned nothing either.
In an earlier post I answered my own question about when the left lost it: Chicago, 1968, Grant Park: The image of uncontrolled rage left the Humphrey campaign in a shambles, and despite a late surge led to a close election, but the installation of Nixon and it has been downhill ever since.
At this point, the rage is not uncontrollable, but portraits of bloggers like MSOC, accurate or not, in MSM like WaPo, do no good. MORE BELOW THE FOLD, INCLUDING AN ANSWER TO THE TITLE QUESTION.
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