PRESTOPUNDIT -- "An intense brain-buzz, guaranteed" (2blowhards)

The strategy of the left is to try to spike reform on the model of the right's demolition of Hillarycare .. The anti-nationalization coalition I think effectively destroyed that idea that anyone would really get a good deal from it, and, perhaps more importantly, plucked several resonant American moral notes about independence, autonomy, and choice.

However, other than scare tactics about market Russian roulette, the only moral arrow in the quiver of the left is a dull social democratic conservatism about preserving a moribund social insurance scheme .. The "save the New Deal" trope lost its luster long ago ..

The best thing anti-reformists really have going for them is that people are risk averse and are wary of change. On the other hand, the reformers have a moral message about ownership, independence, choice, and equality that I think may prove popular.