The fatal conceit of many critics is assuming the left doesn't know or understand. Wrong - they know perfectly well. The Atlantic is just one of many different vehicles to help establish policy 'progressive' debates. Omissions are intentional so that the focus remains on socialist solutions.
The people in the Obama Administration and the left in general understand that they are destroying our great country. The author seems like a useful idiot to me. He is just parroting things he has been told to say.