In defense of the Obama administration and the current hurdles with the ACA implementation, here is what Tom P says: I’m sure the president has read Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” but it might be worthwhile for him to revisit it. Maybe it would cheer him up to remember that the irrational hostility and demonization that’s been directed at him isn’t something unprecedented in American history, though it sometimes feels that way. Nativists and proud ignoramuses and angry racists have been around for a long time, and they’re drinking from a deep and toxic well. But it might also stiffen his spine — there’s no reasoning or bargaining with people who think a modest expansion of health insurance is the beginning of the apocalypse .
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:58:07 +0000
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