Things must be getting pretty desperate for the American “progressive” movement if even the BBC notices it.

The Democrats need a message and a new way of communicating that message to a mass audience. They have neither.

And do not be fooled by those who say this malaise is structural, at this stage of the electoral cycle there isn’t a presidential candidate etc.

No, it is more than that. The American left has faded away.

Only their bumper stickers remain, like cockroaches after a nuclear holocaust.

“Re-defeat George Bush,” they whine. Not knowing, not caring that the world has changed.