Wellstone was a sincere guy, but his was a sincerity of leftism. What you saw tonight was, to the core, the face of leftism in the populist spasms it endows before cascading into violence.
He sincerely believed what he believed. But the sick thing is, they believe what they were saying last night. Paul Wellstone would have loved what he saw last night.
You have it exactly right, Bill. To a real leftist, there is NOTHING that is not exploitable for the cause.