Nice article, Nate.
"Air America has turned into an endless stream of boring bellyaching, where so much time is spent responding to conservative talking points that we can’t push an alternative agenda."
I think you've really gotten to one of the core issues that haunts the Democratic party today.
Rebuplicans do a fair job appealing to conservative ideolology. The Democrats have devolved into a party lacking ideology beyond, "Republicans suck, and we have to beat them."
It's not about winning at ideology anymore, it's more like winning a football game to them.
"White liberals’ support for racial, ethnic, and viewpoint diversity appears nonexistent when it’s them, and not the government, being challenged to diversify."
I think it's actually even broader than that. White liberalism is so mired in elitism that they cannot imagine anyone having the gall to ask them to change at all. They're the ones who fly their gulfstreams to environmental rallies, have armed bodyguards accompany them to gun control rallies and complain to national TV audiences that their viewpoints are being silenced. They are smarter than others, and know what's right for the "everyone else" crowd. The peons of the "everyone elese" crowd aren't worthy of challenging their superior intellect or righteousness. Thus they are hopelessly blind to their hypocrisy.
"White liberalism is so mired in elitism that they cannot imagine anyone having the gall to ask them to change at all. They're the ones who fly their gulfstreams to environmental rallies, have armed bodyguards accompany them to gun control rallies and complain to national TV audiences that their viewpoints are being silenced.....they are hopelessly blind to their hypocrisy."
EXACTLY! Although the blindness is by their own conscious choice....