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identification with Obama’s perceived wounds would become the leitmotif of the party’s politics

This pitch-perfect Enlightenment thinking would prove horribly out of step with a country in which reactionaries had found their footing as the self-designated guardians of a white Christian America in desperate need of restoration, and saw little value in coming together as a nation. Obama pleaded…

Obama’s speeches spelled out a world in shining absolutes; that was his teleological endpoint