A. Barton Hinkle Says Obama’s Progressive Mirage Has Faded

Progressive America is crestfallen. It
had hoped for better things from President Obama, and he has not
delivered. The dashing of those expectations also ought to serve as
a cautionary tale. The vast gulf between the imagined Obama
presidency and the actual Obama presidency should leave
progressives wondering what a future Democrat might do in the Oval
Office. A. Barton Hinkle asks: Do they really expect another
president to govern more liberally? To show more regard for the
Constitution, for civil liberties, for executive restraint? Do they
think some other Democrat could surpass Obama?

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