David Plouffe and a grand bargain

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36. Well

1) I was also right about Iraq long before the mainstream, likely having shared your position.
2) I'm a proud Marxist. I'm also anti-apartheid.

A pseudo-progressive is one who prefers a purist rhetoric to legislative results. They are "pseudo" because - for all their bluster - they don't really care that much for progress, so long as their fixed ideological schema gets its proper angry airing. It should be noted that even Marx had little time for such nonsense, frequently taking all manner of leftist idiots to task for their inability to analyze the actual historical situation over and above their ideological biases. Indeed, some of Marx's most eloquent writings (The Poverty of Philosophy, Critique of the Gotha Program, etc.) are aimed at the historical doubles of our pseudo-progressives.