The pressure is already building to get Obama to govern from the center or even, god forbid, the center-right. We shouldn’t be surprised by this—-fish gotta swim, and pundits gotta stall our country’s progress with hand-wringing. The Obama administration should not listen to these nags. All real evidence points to the fact that this moment was when the country finally began to set aside the divisive politics of the right and move towards a more liberal country, with a little less “hate your neighbor” and a little more sharing. Now, we have a long way to go—-Prop 8’s narrow win shows that. (Though I have some theories that I’ll share with you in next week’s podcast about why I’m not so sure it’s a 100% proof that the voters of California are total bigots.) Obama needs to be an unabashed liberal, because that was what he was elected to be. I have my evidence.
1) The amount of money the little guy gave to the campaign. I myself am hostile to giving to campaigns, because I feel like it’s gambling. But with the Obama campaign, he built a huge war chest with $25 here, $50 there. People were motivated to give what they could not because they wanted the same old bullshit, but because they want something new. Something liberal.