Quick, when someone mentions "the establishment" or "the man" which party comes to mind first. I suspect most people would say the Republican Party. Increasingly though, the reality is quite different.
In the recent debate on social security reform, two of the organizations to come out against any reform are the teacher's union and the AFL-CIO - both bastions of the democratic party.
Michael Barone makes a good case for Republicans as the party of change and Democrats as the party of the past,
Looking back on election year 2004, I am struck by how many of the constituencies supporting Democratic candidates oppose, rather than seek, change -- how they are motivated not by ideas about how to change the future, but by something like nostalgia for the past.