Obama's Theory of Politics A Grand Failure: Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz Gives the Obama Movement a Failing Grade

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz takes to the pages of the New Republic to pronounce the Obama movement a failure:

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.

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