This sort of thing really doesn't inspire confidence in Hillary Clinton. It's not, of course, that I can't understand why Clinton wouldn't like MoveOn.org. After all, they endorsed her opponent. But at the same time, they're an important part of the emergent progressive movement, and it's worrying that Clinton seems to view them as some sort of vaguely illegitimate organization seeking to unfairly manipulate the political process. One of my concerns with Clinton has long been that she's surrounded by folks -- like Mark Penn -- who have a visceral dislike of actual progressives and a contempt for a politics that tries to win on the strength of an expanded progressive majority. The Clintonites have tended to prefer an electoral strategy that saw the liberal base an an electoral impediment, and sought to shunt them into a corner until the center could be captured through strategic moderation. If this election is strengthening Clinton's tendencies to view progressives as the "them" to her "us" -- a tendency she has previously demonstrated with other groups, too -- that's a problem.
