"I'd add that it's not just a matter of finding people with the right breadth of mind to do the digesting and thinking for the vast majority of us who aren't going to do it ourselves. I'd suggest an equally important part of the overall problem is the absence of a group of competent popularizers who can do the same thing for politics as the B-school professors do for business and marketing." Well, doesn't it sort of go back to the Democrats' meta problem that we've talked about? Rather than actually setting up a think tank to popularize liberal ideas, Lakoff set up a think tank to popularize the concept of framing that might help someone else figure out how to popularize liberal ideas ... and then wrote a book to that effect. Hmmm. Someone just needs to do and lead by example.