If off-the-record is to mean anything, anywhere, ever again, no public figure should trust Eleanor Clift again, ever.

The bottom line is, either you believe in your theory of change or you don’t. If you believe that progressive policies such as a bigger stimulus package, or more banking regulation will have a greater impact on restoring the economy and creating jobs, then the people who won’t let you do that are hobbling your ability to succeed. Because the public doesn’t really care whether the change is happening because of liberal or conservative policies, they just care that it’s happening. And they make their choices at the ballot box based on what is happening in their lives.

America’s political and cultural elite are wrong all the time. Why? Because the very things that get them where they are blind them to reality.