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How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Conservative Republicans won power, but they lost the future, and they also lost the argument. The triumph of a blustering, cartoonishly dishonest and manifestly anti-intellectual candidate was a forceful display of the party’s retreat from seriousness. Their critique of Obama’s program amounted to doomsaying predictions that had failed to come to pass. Their alternative was a retread of failed policies and free market aphorisms sold to the public through bombastic sloganeering and social resentment. Trump is the poisoned chalice of a failed ideology. Obama, not Trump, is destined to supply the model for American governance in the decades to come. === When Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell refused to marry an interracial couple, he argued in his own defense, “I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way.”