The powerful word Obama could help Trump understand | The Washington Post - 0 views
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only a few presidents (Lincoln was one) have shared Obama’s inclination to offer his fellow citizens a running class in American history and its meaning.
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Obama saw the complicated lessons of America’s saga as a road map for where it should move next. Obama, Kloppenberg wrote, “has learned congruent lessons from multiple sources,” and summarized them this way:
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Change in America is a work of decades, not months or even years. Obama also learned, from absorbing all these lessons, that a culture’s only home is to be found in its tortured history.
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