Parties — particularly when they’re in the minority — care more about power than policy. Perhaps there’s nothing much to be done about this. And as I said, it isn’t clear that the media, or anyone else, should try. But it puts the lie to the narrative that America is really riven by grand ideological disagreements. America is deeply divided on the question of which party should be in power at any given moment. Much of the polarization over policy is driven by that question, not the other way around.

via Why Voters Shouldn’t Trust Their Own Political Party: Ezra Klein – Bloomberg.

I’ll disagree with Klein in one sense — the media absolutely should make a bigger deal out of this. Reporters shouldn’t leave this kind of analysis to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.