Imitation is the highest form of flattery

Markos wants to build the equivalent of megachurches for the political left:

At what's arguably the top of his game, Moulitsas says he's "going offline" next year, taking his obvious knack for building online communities and applying it to that other great American pastime: sports. And once he gets his network of sports blogs ramped up, he'll turn to building communities in the real world, a chain of giant meeting places "replicating megachurches for the left" – complete with cafés and child care. Moulitsas has shown he can harness people's enthusiasm, but he says he doesn't want a leadership role in these "democracy centers"...

While working on the mechanics of the sports blogs, he plans to embark next year on building real-world destinations for progressives and liberals throughout the Midwest, "cultural outposts" designed to attract thousands of like-minded liberals. "Each one of these would have a vast left-wing conspiracy component," he says, like leadership training or discussions on progressive issues.

Good luck. I can tell you right now why this is likely to fail. What will Markos use to replace the elements of a living Faith that bind Christians to each other and to their conservative morals?

Their rage? Hatred for the opposition party?

Is that enough to glue a conglomeration of separate interests together? Not in the long term, no way.