Wednesday 3 September 2008
John McCain’s convention gambit is a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists, as well as bloggers (the “angry left,” Bush called them) along with confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party. It revives cultural memory: the resentment narrative after Chicago ‘68 but with the angry left more distributed. At the center of the strategy is the flashpoint candidacy of Sarah Palin, a charismatic figure around whom the war can be fought to scale, as it were. Jay Rosen ☀
