It may take the perspective of history to get the basic facts straight
A president whose legacy means different things to different people. Photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Im Color me highly skeptical, and sometimes angry, about the many measures by which political observers draw equivalence or even identity between the Left and Right. But there’s one area in which there really is a
For a certain species of progressive, the Democratic Party will never come to grips with the urgency of deep structural change unless it gets over its infatuation with Obama, whose centrist instincts and pro-corporate associations made his presidency nearly as bad as George W. Bush’s.
As Bill Scher observed at Politico, the intra-Democratic debate over Obama has been “happening sotto voce, with critics trying to criticize Obama without maligning him personally—or even mentioning him.” Stoller is an exception in that respect. But it is generally accepted that Obama was anything but a fiery progressive, for good or for ill.
It was a reminder that when he was in office Republicans routinely called Obama — whom many progressives then and now considered a complete corporate shill — a market-hating, Big Government socialist. In 2009, a resolution at the Republican National Committee to begin referring to the opposition party as the “Democrat Socialist Party” came close to passing, noted Politico at the time:
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