First a correction to my column today. Somehow I made the boneheaded assertion that Wilson was the first Progressive president. He wasn’t. T.R. was. I don’t know why or how I let that make it in there.

Second, I’ve gotten several finger-wagging emails like this one:

Jonah,
To see what is new – you need to see with “fresh” eyes – i.e. Take off your ideological lenses & blinders – Bypassing Pavlovian conditioned responses you might actually perceive what is “new.”

What I love about this is how much it reinforces the impression of cultlike followership among Obamaphiles. I made an argument about how Obama isn’t new. What I get in return is this mumbo jumboand pseudo-psycho analytic b.s. For the record, I know there are people who can make the argument that Obama is new. I just think those arguments are unpersuasive. But those aren’t the emails I’m getting. Instead I get this “If you take the blue pill you’ll see the Matrix for what it is” nonsense.