Joe Klein: Not a Democrat: The Party Left Me

Another in a long line of such essays.

I mean, that's my story, too, in the main.

Democrats still do not seem to have--not widely, anyway--even acknowledged that the party has rocketed leftward.

Klein makes two points of a kind that I think are important, but tend not to loom large in my thinking: that the most prominent forces in the party are public sector unions and lawyers.

And there is a very clear case to be made that these two groups are not exactly forces for good.

Though, again, these are not issues I understand very well.