Has this been posted to /r/politics yet?
Can't wait to hear how the atlantic is a right wing commie russian backed shitrag
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/j7gi3x/why_liberals_pretend_they_have_no_power_elite/
Not a bad article, really. Good job pointing out the feigned helplessness. The only thing is, they don't really address the underlying power structure of the Democrats and funders.
They say, "Although it has certainly found its most potent expression in Washington, this posture of feigned powerlessness has gradually come to infect the broader culture and ideology of American liberalism as a whole." and then goes on to talk about governors.
This type of cultural analysis sucks. Any outlet trying to capture some national zeitgeist that encompasses a few hundred million people is gonna be wrong. I just want to see them address the material conditions that bring this about.