politics. will it reinforce a die hard opposition on the left. your book is written as a once and futurely bral. you don t want them to play identity politics but what do you do if the other side is playing identity politics. the first thing you have to recognize is it works for them and doesn t work for us. but beyond that, i think what s important here and it showed up in robyn wright s article is there s some blue missing in the country. something that keeps us together. it s not that we re logger heads but we re drifting apart. there once used to be a democratic party vision, a liberal vision of what we stood for, what made us citizens, how we could work together in a political way on the basis of solidarity and equal protection. then there was the reagan view, the less government the better. we re by ourselves in our