"The New Unbound Obamism" -- It divides, but can it conquer?

 

Victor Davis Hanson, in The Meaning of the Inaugural Address, addresses "three dangers to the new unbound Obamism." This is the third:

 

Three, the bitter election wars to achieve and maintain a 51–53 percent majority -

(the noble 99 percent versus the selfish 1 percent,

the greens versus the polluters,

the young and hip versus the stodgy and uncool,

the wisely unarmed versus the redneck assault-weapon owners,

women versus the sexists,

gays versus the bigots,

Latinos versus the nativists,

blacks versus the “get over it” spiteful and resentful,

the noble public sector versus the “you didn’t build that” profiteers,

Colin Powell/Chuck Hagel/reasonable Republicans versus neanderthal House tea-party zealots)

 

- in Nixonian fashion have left a lot of bitter divisions that lie just beneath the surface of a thinning veneer.

 

 

See also this flashback to vintage VDH (June 2009):

Our Historically Challenged President