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Obama Fundamentally Transformed Our Two-Party System
 [AmGreatness] The outcome of 2020 is not yet settled, obviously, but these two presidential election contests taken together already tell an amazing story.The Democrat-Republican establishment had 2016 all planned out. According to the plan, 2016 would be another Clinton-Bush election, this time Jeb(!) versus Hillary. Hillary would win of course, and politics would return to normal. The majority party Democrats would keep pushing for bigger and more unaffordable government, the minority party Republicans would continue their project of steadily losing the fight, and the establishmentarians on both sides would continue feathering their nests. But back to normal was not to be. Obama changed the game in ways the political establishment did not quite understand. What Obama did was the American political equivalent of walking on water; he had quite openly rejected America, and yet he was rewarded with a two-term presidency! As a result, it was not clear that politics in America was ever going to return to normal‐and in any case, there was no chance 2016 was going to be a return to normal. Posted by: 746 2020-02-10 |
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