E.J. Dionne makes a wonderfully excellent point in his column today:
Progressives will never reach their own Morning in America unless they use the Gipper's method to offer their own critique of the conservatism he helped make dominant. It is still more powerful in our politics, as we are learning in Massachusetts, than it ought to be.
I would add that directing our outrage at the president -- or relatively insignificant players like Jonathan Gruber -- isn't the way to make the case for progressivism and against conservatism.