Glenn Reynolds wrote An Army of Davids a few years back.
Today, Daniel Henninger notes who’s winning. (that would be the Davids)
Barack Obama and the Democrats just got hit with the same disruptive force in the U.S. Whatever the health-care bill’s merits, Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues legislated as if living inside the old status quo when no one beyond the Beltway understood what their lawmakers did. In the 1960s, when Congress created Medicare and Medicaid, can there have been 100 nonspecialists who had any clue what Congress was doing? But for a year millions read daily ObamaCare’s arcane details and shared opinions. That engagement fed directly into the historic November election shellacking.
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Nor is any of this a revelation. But somehow people in positions of political authority, whether Hosni Mubarak or foreign-policy establishments everywhere, including our State Department, act as if this is just troublesome background noise. Understandably so. It is hard to ascribe primal power to things with goofy names like Twitter and Facebook.
Go – enjoy the whole column.
Glenn, – go ahead and gloat.
