Barack Obama warned in his DemConvention speech that American democracy may not survive his immediate successor. jonathanchait writes
Photo: DNC Barack Obama shot into the public eye in 2004 with an idealistic speech about the possibilities of America. He has always sought to understand and reason with his political opponents, and when he attacked them, he did so with subtlety. A writer by trade, he has always weighed his words carefully and is loathe to cheapen its currency.
Trump, he said, failed to “feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us.” Obama didn’t accuse Trump of failing to safeguard the country. He accused him, quite accurately, of failing even to care about the well-being of those who aren’t his supporters. But what was most striking was that Obama depicted Trump as a threat to American democracy. His famous line about the arc of history bending toward justice was never the entirety of his view. Obama has always told the story of America as a push and pull between progress and reaction — advances followed by retreats. He has always placed his opponents — the Paul Ryans and the Mitt Romneys — in that context.
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