Al From's group wanted a "bloodless revolution" in our Democratic Party.

[MisterP]

29. "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night.

You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." --Ralph Reed

this happened at the same time as Gingrich and the fundies' full takeover of the GOP--and you KNOW that that had to be coordinated, like the neocon/neolib takeover of everything in the late 70s, from foreign-policy analysis to pharmacists

what that did was make X or Y the framework within which everyone had to operate: everyone argued over how best to deregulate or "deal with" Iraq

they took over both parties by spooking them with their losses, just like the oil shock and stagflation was used to import Pinonomics even under Carter: the boys in the brown suits would save us all, the economy would soar and take everyone with it once the red tape was cut