What does is mean that, as LaMarche notes, many "liberals" have begun referring to themselves as "progressives?" Are Progressives now trusting to the popularity of their vision of/for the US (and marketing it)? Are we now at the beginning of a possible "opening" of American society and if so, what role(s) might artists play?
Many things I've read lately were written in the last few years of the Bush administration. This interview (and the concept of nongovernmental politics generally) resonates with Stephen Duncombe's book Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (I know, I've mentioned it a few times, sorry.) In this book, he calls on "mainstream liberals" to learn from the media success of more marginalized, spectacular activist groups - Billionaire's for Bush & Reclaim the Streets, for example. This is similar to LaMarche's complaint that liberals haven't tended to trust in the popularity of their vision(s) and so don't "package it for consumption" or present it boldly. Has what they were calling for recently come to pass? What has shifted?
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