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Townhall
Obama Reshapes
Presidential Politics -- But Maybe Not To Democrats' Benefit
Michael Barone
Jan 01, 2016
One thing that's striking about the presidential race, which, finally,
officially begins soon, is how much the race has been shaped by Barack
Obama. The course of the contests for both the Republican and
Democratic nominations would be inconceivable absent the course of the
Obama presidency.
This is most apparent in the phenomenon that goes by the name of Donald
Trump. Trump's gratuitous insults of rivals reflect the coarseness of
Obama's nonstop insults of Republicans and anyone who does not share
his views and priorities. Despite his pre-presidential promises of
nonpartisanship, Obama has been the most grating and vitriolic partisan
president of the last 60 years.
Trump's more outlandish proposals -- making Mexico pay for a border
wall, making common cause with Russia in Syria -- can be seen as a
variation on Obama's insistence that climate change is the nation's No.
1 problem and his acquiescence in, well, making common cause with
Russia in Syria.
And the adoring crowds that throng Trump's monster rallies, what do
they remind you of? The crowds that cheered Obama in 2008 as he
promised to fundamentally transform America and stop the rise of seas...
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