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⭐The Audacity of Nope: Obama’s Legacy of Learned Helplessness

⭐The Audacity of Nope: Obama’s Legacy of Learned Helplessness

Before Trump weaponized power, Obama embalmed it. Let’s talk about the costs of celebrating caution as courage.

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I’ve written at length on this and no longer indulge the fiction that Democrats merely have a “messaging” glitch; the trouble isn’t how they phrase their ideas, but the ideas themselves.

Democrats don't have a Messaging Problem, they have a Message Problem

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Democrats don't have a Messaging Problem, they have a Message Problem

Right now, the Democratic Party does not have a communication or messaging problem. The real issue is that its elite leadership does not want what most Americans want, because truly democratic reforms would undermine their own interests. The public wants robust institutions of self-governance—like competitive primaries that could challenge entrenched fi…

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Barack Obama spent eight years teaching the country that government exists mainly to explain its own impotence, and that tutorial calcified into a party-wide culture of …

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