Salon's blurb for Katy Butler's piece titled "Losing my religion" captures it well:
A novice political volunteer explores what went wrong with Howard Dean's campaign and, with guarded optimism, looks to a future without him.
It articulates some uncomfortable truths. More precisely, it strikes me as a truthful account of one person's uncomfortable path. It obviously doesn't speak for all Deaniacs, but all Deaniacs ought to listen to it carefully.