Why it won't work.

Hillary may try to duck behind 'progressive' in order to avoid whatever unpleasant associations have been attached to 'liberal,' but it won't work. Steve Benen highlights some of the attacks quickly launched to sully the image of the revised language.

The rules are simple, folks.

There's us and there's them.

We're right and they're wrong, but...

No matter what we call ourselves, they'll lie about us.

No matter what we say, they'll lie about us.

No matter what we do, they'll lie about us.

They're just liars.

We can't adapt our policies, actions or language to please them. We have to do the hard work of honest public political education all by ourselves, because the crooks and liars on the other side aren't going to help.