Does GOP Recognize Post-Obama Age?
The Post-Obama age is here, but the state and national GOP have not noticed
The NSA scandal ushered in the Post-Obama age. This is the age in which the critical mass that elected Obama twice has evaporated. It’s been a long time coming. President Obama made it clear over time that he was not really an agent of change, but had in fact used his rhetorical skills and the historical accident of his race, as well as the foil of the Bush years, to project an intense charisma that had no relation to actual struggle in the policy arena. The liberal mind was entranced and mesmerized, only to see Obama shrink from all the big battles: climate change, the environment, the economy, guncontrol, foreign policy, the war on drugs- you name it. Obama ducks all skirmishes, and all real accomplishment. Relying on rousing rhetoric and skillful manipulation of a type available to incumbent presidents, he has been able to minimize the attrition of his image, so that his core support could almost ignore the loss. That ended, however, when Edward Snowdon released the documents that made plain the total… Read More