The Left and Huckabee

Two conflicting opinions on Mike Huckabee:

Stay Classy, Huckabee by David Sirota:

Personally, I want to believe Obama’s vision of America as a class-free utopia where change comes without rancor or division. But history shows that most positive change in America has been about class and conflict — whether it was the battle for basic labor laws or the fight for Social Security.

That’s why, whoever wins the primaries, the more class forces its way onto the presidential stage, the better.

In short, stay classy, Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee as Laibach by Jodi Dean:

The sincere, believing Huckabee, by identifying with their words, forces the obscene supplement to the fore—the Republicans have to distance themselves from their own slogans and claims, their compassion. They try to stain him with the l-word, liberal. But that’s a hopeless gesture.

Does this mean that leftists should support Huckabee? Of course not. It means that the Republicans can destroy themselves and that leftists should pursue the hard task of bringing something new into being (a task perhaps made a bit easier by the fact that over 40% of the people in the US claim to want major, substantial change).

I think I have to side with Dean.