The Hopey Changey Thing
LOOKING FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE In 2008 the signs were everywhere. “Hope and Change” were the call words of Barack Obama’s campaign. Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer at The Atlantic, wrote in that magazine in January 2014, “It’s worth remembering that Obama asserted a need to ‘fundamentally change the way Washington works,’ an approach Hillary Clinton regarded as naive, but that Americans embraced.” How did that work out? I think you know. And what is it, after seven years of disappointment both on the political right and left, that the American electorate find so appealing about such divergent figures as...
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