(Damon Winter | The New York Times) President Barack Obama drapes his arm over the lectern as he speaks at a campaign event at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, Fla., June 26, 2012. "If the exhaustion with technocracy makes a socialist a viable nominee, that exhaustion plus a solid economy explains why the socialist may yet fall to an even more archaic breed — a party politician," writes Ross Douthat.