As a follow-up to the last post, Dayo Olapade's The Paper Chase is a great reported look at the frenetic jockeying and planning that Democratic think tanks and advocacy groups (CAP included) have been doing to impact the transition. It's actually quite funny in a very Washington way. But one of the striking subthemes of the article is how new the relevant infrastructure is. The Center for American Progress, the Huffington Post, the Campaign for America's Future, Air America, MoveOn, the blogs, and much else didn't exist in 2003, much less 1992. Even as many of the appointees are from the Clinton era, the architecture of the progressive movement has been radically rebuilt in an incredibly short period of time. It's very impressive.
