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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail in 2008. Up until that moment, Obama had carefully couched his red diaper radicalism in the language of moderation, of healing, of “one America.”
It’simpossibletosayforsurewhetherObamaaccidentallyletsliptherealfoundationofhiscandidacyorifhewasfeelingsocockythatclosetoelectiondaythathefelthecouldgetawaywithanything.ButI’vealwaysfeltitwasthelatter.
Trumpwasobviouslykiddingwhenheclaimedin2016thathecould“shootsomebodyand…wouldn’tlosevoters.”Obamawasn’tatallkiddingaboutwantingtofundamentallytransformAmerica.
Conservativesand(most)Republicansshouted,“DANGER,WillRobinson,DANGER!”whenObamafinallysaiditoutloud.Eventhepress(belatedlyandinonlyonesmallinstance)kinda-sortanoticed.Here’satranscriptculledfromaconversationPBShostCharlieRosehadwithNBCanchorTomBrokawonedayafterObama’s“fundamen
