LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

But just because Barack Obama let us down, doesn't mean that there is no inherent value to representation and diversity in who holds power.

Yes we want to restructure power relations altogether. But in the meanwhile who holds power matters, and can create better and worse...

conditions for the restructuring or revolution we want to bring into the world.

Which is why I maintain that Barack Obama was not only better than any Republican, but was so much better than any other Dem who might run

As insufficient as he was, as incapable of effecting liberation as his ideology is, Barack took us SO much further than ANY alternatives.

You wanna talk about the Overton window? Without Obama, Dems might have been a Clintonite centrist party for another 20 years.

"What's the difference between Obama center-left and Clinton?" Ummmm... expanding Medicaid rather than contracting welfare?

Ummmm... passing Dodd-Frank instead of continuing Reagan's deregulatory agenda.