Is there anyone writing commentary today better than Walter Russell Mead? His most recent long-form blogpost http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/11/06/occupy-blue-wall-street/ suggests the answer is no.

It’s a 3,565-word essay entitled “Occupy Blue Wall Street?” that starts off with a New York Times story on the trial of police on corruption charges in The Bronx and then moves smoothly to describe the emerging political war among the mainstays of the Democratic party and what he calls “Blue America.”