Superficiality of Obama strikes again. Lula rose up from poverty, union leadership and jail (not a year as a "community organizer") to lead the country that under him reduced poverty by millions. In the meantime Obama hired Wall Street bosses to clean up the mess they created.https://twitter.com/BenjaminFogel/status/1329042841276977152 …
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Doesn't mean he also didn't have the morals of a Tammany Hall boss; one doesn't exclude the other (see Perry Anderson's brilliant anatomization of the PT in the NLR about a year ago).
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For me the problem is Obama doesn't recognize that Tammany Hall bosses did good things: their transactional politics meant they helped their voters, they brought in marginal people to politics & they built durable winning coalitions! The Dems could use Tammany Hall now!
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I actually quoted the entire passage earlier.
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