The Quiet Revolution

tnr.com — These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. From health care reform and the public option to Afghanistan, and Wall Street, Obama has thoroughly let down his party’s left flank. Yet there is one extremely consequential area where Obama has done just about everything a liberal could ask for — but done it so quietly that almost no one, including most liberals, has noticed. In doing so, he is resuscitating an entire philosophy of government with roots in the Progressive era of the early twentieth century. Taken as a whole, it is arguably the most significant accomplishment of his first year in office.

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