I'll be honest. The Democratic Strategist has not been a must read for me in the past. But now it will be as my friend Ed Kilgore, formerly of New Donkey, is the new Managing Editor. And Ed starts out with a bang, with a article discussing John Judis and Ruy Texeira's new the Re-Emerging Democratic Majority. Ed writes:

It's the indies, and to some extent professionals, they suggest, who make the "emerging Democratic majority" a potentially unstable coalition rather than a mass movement. And their article ends on a cautionary note. While enactment of some popular, landmark domestic legislation (e.g., universal health insurance) could solidify the Democratic majority, the dynamics of the Democratic coalition, along with built-in resistance to change in Washington's governing institutions, could make that difficult or even impossible. And without such transformative, "realigning reforms," the Democratic majority may turn out to somewhat fragile, and beset by the kinds of intraparty tensions that tend to divide the Left from the Center. The 2008 election, they suggest, could provide a critical test of Democrats' ability to manage their coalition, particularly since presidential elections inherently make it harder to accomodate the sort of state and regional customization of campaigns that worked well for Democrats in 2006.

I'll write my thoughts on all this in a later post.