Krauthammer: Liberalism "Set Back A Full Generation" If Obamacare Fails
KRAUTHAMMER: He doesn’t succeed in all the things he wants to do. He isn’t able to cut the government, but he changes the way we look at the government. Obama has always seen himself — and it is remarkable because he did this as an outsider, somebody who really had a long shot at the White House, but he saw himself long ago as world historical, as a figure who would change that trajectory, end the 30-year conservative ascendancy ushered in by Reagan and begin a new liberal ascendancy. The irony is that his signature achievement, Obamacare, is the test of this new liberalism, and today it hangs in the balance of a website or a promise here and there. So there’s kind of a practical reality check on his ambitions. If he does not succeed with Obamacare, the cause of the kind of expansive liberalism, the kind of entitlement state he’s been looking for I think will be set back a full generation. (via Daily Caller)
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