This presidency has built itself around a few core elements of the progressive cause.
One such element involves developing a culture where class identity, and the envy it inherently infuses, is the driver of policy.
We are not one country, in this view. Progressives have no sense that the United States has created one people out of citizens with many disparate roots.
Instead they see a country divided — and one that needs to be further divided — by race, wealth, education, geography and identity. The American dream has been redefined according to the European experience of class confrontation.
Another element of the Obama legacy is of course the massive expansion of the federal government. By this means, the few exert their influence over the many, in part through federal regulations that are activist-driven.
Another key element within the progressive worldview is the idea that we simply do not need to worry about the cost of a massive expansion of government programs.
