Postmortem …

… Blame the identity apostles – they led us down this path to populism | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

For myself, I cheer as people protest that it no longer “means” anything to be left or right, liberal or conservative. If the left is so lacking in confidence it needs to launder itself as “progressive”, that is fine by me. But I just want to kick over the tables, rip up the rule books, get on with the debate.

Vikram was on to this awhile back.