Defeating the Republicans in November must be the top priority for all progressives. The pundits tell us incessantly that Democrats will lose seats and possibly control of Congress because usually (but not always) this is what happens to the party in power in midterm elections. The Republicans hope this narrative will help demoralize Democratic voters, but their main message is that President Obama and the Democrats are responsible for the unrelenting economic crisis.
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The comments on this article are very interesting. In particular, Bruce Bostick, usually a staunch defender of the general support-the-Democrats Party line took umbrage at Nagin's "some on the left" attack on Obama's left critics, citing "cynicism...and outright anger" towards the Democrats among union workers. It goes without saying that if the CPUSA had taken a more sensible approach to Obama and the Democrats that acknowledged their fealty to the ruling class, and prioritized building a social movement based around specific reforms rather than the President/Democrats, we would not be seeing so much of this kind of potentially disastrous disenchantment. In my view, the widespread disgust with the Democrats coupled with the lack of a real people's movement (the fictive "all-people's/Obama/multi-whatever coalition" notwithstanding) could lead to a worst case scenario of rightist resurgence in November along with demobilization among leftists and progressives.
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