Not a great screed. The author simultaneously complains about someone spreading hopelessness because they said we are “hopelessly unprepared” (which anyways is

Not a great screed. The author simultaneously complains about someone spreading hopelessness because they said we are “hopelessly unprepared” (which anyways is not synonymous with spreading hopelessness, if they do not insist that we cannot be prepared...hopelessly is used less as a description and more as an intensifier of the word unprepared here) while immediately after complaining about someone else spreading a positive message because the message was based on PR. They complain that Sacramento progressives are spreading hopelessness because a Capitol lobbyist (!) claims that nothing can be done. Really, the article is basically throwing a bunch of random anecdotes that they are not entirely thrilled about and ascribing them to “progressiveness”.