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In reply to the discussion: The imminent backlash of the Democratic Left. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)"remember Obama got elected in a racist country twice so the tired, old argument that a real liberal can't win is simply false advertising"
Obama, for all intents and purposes, WAS a left-leaning progressive when he was elected in a landslide. That's how he presented himself in the primaries. And then Fox News and Rush Limpballs took that ball and threw it even further into left field in the lead up to that 2008 election. EVERYONE knew (or thought they knew) what kind of "hope and change" we had coming. And Americans welcomed it in droves, especially after the disaster of the Bush administration giving everyone an example of what unfettered right wing neo-conservatism will get you.
After he won, the GOP, Fox News and Rush went into blistering overdrive to fight against the blizzard they thought was coming their way. I think they were just as shocked as the rest of us when instead Obama knocked on their door with a box of cookies.
It was perhaps the biggest opportunity for implementation of progressive economic policies and election finance reform in modern history....and it was frittered away