Glenn Greenwald: Obama and progressives – what will liberals do with their big election victory?
Glenzilla ..
With [the election] results, one can choose to see things two ways: (1) emboldened by their success and the obvious movement of the electorate in their direction, liberals will resolve that this time things will be different, that their willingness to be Good Partisan Soldiers depends upon their core values not being ignored and stomped on, or (2) inebriated with love and gratitude for Obama for having vanquished the evil Republican villains, they will follow their beloved superhero wherever he goes with even more loyalty than before [i.e. cuts to social security and medicare and war with Iran]. One does not need to be Nate Silver to be able to use the available historical data to see which of those two courses is the far more likely one
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