Opinion | Missing Barack Obama's Voice - The New York Times - 0 views
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Many progressives who came of age during the Obama presidency — myself among them — became disillusioned with its caution.
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Too many of us took for granted Mr. Obama’s uncanny ability to make sense of contrasting truths: the give and take of liberty and fairness in an economy; “the goodness of our nation” and its “original sin of slavery.”
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nd as Republicans blocked him in bad faith while inequality soared, we grew weary of his earnest civics of solidarity — the way he wove competing policy ideas into a narrative in which all of us were imperfect protagonists.
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