{"id":4212,"date":"2018-09-24T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/obama-won\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:11:59","slug":"obama-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/obama-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/09\/23\/obama-won\/\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">By traditional metrics, Barack Obama\u2019s presidency was mostly a failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Yet in terms of culture, Obama clearly won.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>\u201cWhite Privilege\u201d Goes Mainstream<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">He institutionalized radical cultural shifts by creating entirely new rubrics of privileging race and gender. The old idea of due process and the rule of law were subordinated to identity politics, whether in matters of sanctuary cities and non-enforcement of immigration law or campus charges of sexual assault. The larger culture made the necessary adjustments and followed suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/09\/some-questions-about-white-privilege.html\">Some Questions About White Privilege<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/08\/what-is-white-supremacy.html\">What is White Supremacy?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2018\/08\/more-on-whether-non-whites-can-be-racist.html\">More on Whether Non-Whites Can be Racist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson: By traditional metrics, Barack Obama\u2019s presidency was mostly a failure. [. . .] Yet in terms of culture, Obama clearly won. \u201cWhite Privilege\u201d Goes Mainstream He institutionalized radical cultural shifts by creating entirely new rubrics of privileging race and gender. The old idea of due process and the rule of law were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/obama-won\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama Won&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}