THE PROGRESSIVE STORY HITS A SNAG: “Try as it might, even the Communist Party of China could not make one plus zero add up to two,” Richard Fernandez writes at the Belmont Club. “This is an important factor to bear in mind for those conditioned to think Progressives will inevitably triumph, or worse, that the Republicans will stop them.  It is the sheer power of reality which wins in the end. What stands in Gramsci’s way are consequences, not John Boehner.”

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