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"When one of the two major parties supports a certain policy and the other party pretends to oppose it — as happened with these radical War on Terror policies during the Bush years — then public opinion is divisive on the question, sharply split. But once the policy becomes the hallmark of both political parties, then public opinion becomes robust in support of it. That’s because people assume that if both political parties support a certain policy that it must be wise, and because policies that enjoy the status of bipartisan consensus are removed from the realm of mainstream challenge. That’s what Barack Obama has done to these Bush/Cheney policies: he has, as Jack Goldsmith predicted he would back in 2009, shielded and entrenched them as standard U.S. policy for at least a generation, and (by leading his supporters to embrace these policies as their own) has done so with far more success than any GOP President ever could have dreamed of achieving."
The Establishment could not sell another four years of Bush (i.e. McCain) so they handed over the throne to a Democrat who promised "hope and change." The People went back to sleep (after all, we had one of "our guys" in now!) and Obama went to work shredding the Constitution and escalating the War on Terror in a way that Bush could not have dreamed of!
I knew this from Day 1 of the Obama presidency. In fact, I believe my Facebook status that day was a famous lyric from The Who - "Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss." I was crying out, yet very few listened. After four years former Obama supporters are waking up, but as this article indicates it is sadly few and far between.
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