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From: leroysoetoro@barackobama.com

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-trump-future-history- president-fate

If you want to get a feel for the probable shape of the 2020 presidential
race, there is no single book that will help more than Theodore H. White’s
“The Making of the President 1972.”

You might be surprised that an election that happened nearly half a
century ago could be the best forerunner for next year’s historic
collision between the news media and the left on one side, and President
Trump and his grassroots enthusiasm on the other.


Yet the more I have watched and analyzed what is going on, the more
convinced I am that 2020 is becoming a referendum almost exactly like 1972
was.

To better understand this, it is essential to read White’s book. White was
the greatest chronicler of American presidential campaigns (and before
that a brilliant reporter about China). He puts the 1972 campaign into a context which is eerily parallel to today.

Remember, White is writing some 47 years ago. Yet, across that nearly half century the basic stories are the same.

What makes “The Making of the President 1972” so remarkable is the degree
to which it is a cultural and historical book rather than a political book
– and the degree to which America has been caught in patterns and
conflicts that clearly have their roots in over a half-century of
struggle.

Rereading White’s book reminded me that the background for virtually every fight we are now in can be found in the late 1960s.

The modern left has simply metastasized and grown more aggressive,
intolerant and totalitarian. The elite media have grown further apart from
the average American, and the reporting standards of an earlier generation
have been replaced by advocacy standards.

Amazingly, many of our worst problems can be found described in the
politics of 1972. These include quotas, the destruction of the cities,
dramatic increases in crime and violence, anti-American attitudes, and new cultural standards on abortion, sexual redefinition, and the rise of
identity politics as an unchallengeable force on the left.

Amazingly, many of our worst problems can be found described in the
politics of 1972. These include quotas, the destruction of the cities,
dramatic increases in crime and violence, anti-American attitudes, and new cultural standards on abortion, sexual redefinition, and the rise of
identity politics as an unchallengeable force on the left.

White puts in context the great changes that were reshaping America and American politics. His analysis is so profound – and his language relates
so much to today – that I am going to continually refer to it while
outlining 2020 and beyond.

The radicalism of Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., ultimately cost him one of
the worst defeats in presidential history. President Richard Nixon won in
a landslide with 61 percent of the vote.

White points out that the elite media and the left did everything they
could to undermine and isolate Nixon, but Nixon kept reaching beyond them
to the American people. White contrasts the New York-Boston-Washington-Los Angeles crowd with “out there.” He argues Nixon knew he could never break through with the establishment, so he simply ignored them and reached
beyond them.

When the election results came in, it was clear that Nixon understood
America better than his left-wing opponents.

The big difference between 1972 and 2020 is that McGovern was an outlier.
He was the lone radical in a party that still had deep roots in
traditional America.

McGovern was ultimately repudiated by most Democrats – and in the end, the Democratic Congress survived because members could all say, “I am not as radical as George McGovern.”

What is fascinating about the current campaign is the degree to which all
the Democratic presidential candidates who are going to survive are to the
left of McGovern. Every moderate Democratic candidate is going to be
squeezed out of the race.

The pictures of all the presidential candidates raising their hands in
support of radical positions indicates the danger for the Democrats. Their entire party will have left the American people behind by the time of the convention next summer.

The fate of McGovern in 1972 may well be the fate of the entire Democratic Party in 2020.

The parallels between 1972 and 2020 are real. White described 1972 in
terms of:

The power of the media.

The rise of the movement of hard-left true believers who crowded out the traditional liberals. White calls it the liberal theology replacing the
liberal idea.

The stunning and decisive failures of the Great Society, which were
vividly obvious by 1972 but still trap us in terrible policies with
devastating human consequences.

I will write more on each of these key, half-century-old patterns. Despite White writing about them in 1972, they still define our times.



--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.

Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.

Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.

The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.

Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.

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