by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math

I’ll try to keep this brief. Yglesias wonders “whether the revolution ended because the revolutionaries won, or because they sold out? The boring, but probably boring-because-accurate, answer is that it’s a little of both.” I’d buy that. The follow-up questions, of course, are what changes have occured both among bloggers and the left-of-center DC establishment, and are the costs worth the increase in influence?

Update: See Amanda Marcotte for more

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.