With all due respect, I don't believe you do.
He ends his article with a thinly-veiled call for "the red states" to embrace a stronger message of socialism from the Democratic party.
There are a lot of people who voted for Bush who wondered what happened to fiscal conservatism.
I do too, but that has nothing to do with Perlstein's call for union protectionism and more government control over evil corporations and their employment decisions.