Live By the Movement, Die By the Movement

Obama’s doomed theory of politics.

Sean Wilentz, The New Republic | Full Story | More than candidates are defeated in elections. So are ideas. The Democrats’ heavy losses in the midterm elections may now force a reassessment and overhaul of the Barack Obama political experiment. Whether the president has the dexterity and fortitude to navigate through the harsher Washington political environment of the next two years will determine his survival. Clearly, the hopes and dreams that propelled Obama to the White House are in disarray. The social movement politics that some of his most fervent followers ascribed to him—the idea of electing a “post-partisan” president as the leader not of a nation or even of a political party but of a personalized social movement—has failed. >>

Published 10.11.09 00:00:00 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 10.11.09 | |

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