By self-selection those left at the site are thus people who agree with that purpose.

Well, by self-selection and by having people who fail to toe the party line evicted.

Which, given the relationship between the Kossacks and the Democratic Party insiders (the kind analysis is that the Kossacks are gaining status within the machine; the unkind analysis is that they have been co-opted), is neither surprising nor particularly odious.

What would be odious would be claiming that it doesn't employ their editorial control to push the party line. Because that would be untrue.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.