Whittaker Chambers Warns Democrats

In today's Washington Times, national columnist Paul Greenberg wrote:

The Democrats don't have to change. They can just sit back and let the red states turn redder, and lose the next three or four presidential elections. They can just drift to port until they become a cozy little club. They can meet every four years at their national convention to exchange clever repartee and inside jokes, congratulating themselves on their own ideological purity and general sophistication. Much like Taft Republicans in the GOP's dark age.

It seems that Greenberg seeks a more formidable adversary -- and so he kindly passed on the observations of Whittaker Chambers to Bill Buckley:

If Republicans can not get some grip on the actual world we live in and from it generalize and actively promote a program that means something to masses of people -- why, somebody else will. There will be nothing left to argue. The voters will simply vote Republicans into singularity.

Greenberg continues:

Substitute "Democrats" for Republicans in Chambers' warning, and you have the challenge confronting Democrats today... The future of the Democratic Party, if it is to have one, lies not with the Howard Deans and Michael Moores, or even with the only vaguely defined John Kerrys and John Edwardses, but with bright young comers like Barack Obama. He's the next U.S. senator from Illinois and a natural conciliator. Someone who is rooted in his faith, dedicated to building community, and who can even work with Republicans to achieve sensible reforms.

Thank you, Mr. Greenberg, for the best summary to date on last week's national elections.