Writing for The Boston Phoenix Mark Jurkowitz says forget Iraq, the Supreme Court nominations, and Social Security, it took a hurricane to wake up the press, raise the issue of race and class, and redefine the political landscape.
Hurricane Katrina did not simply destroy physical infrastructure, social fabric, and countless lives on America’s Gulf Coast. It blew away the ground rules that had defined post-9/11 American politics and protected the most polarizing administration in recent history one that failed to articulate a coherent domestic agenda, tossed gasoline on the smoldering culture wars, and dragged the country into a divisive and very likely disastrous war in Iraq.
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