.” “We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. Which leads to yet another question: without the Obama brand of smug progressivism as a foil (by the time Obama left office, Democrats held the fewest number of elected offices nationwide since the 1920s) and the Tea Party as a tailwind, does Donald Trump dabble in presidential politics? What Patrick tell Americans on Election Night is the same as ten years earlier, on the occasion of his first gubernatorial win: “You are every black man, woman, and child in Massachusetts and America, and every other striver of every race and kind, who is reminded tonight that the American dream is for you, too.”
Author: December 10, 2025
Published at: 2025-12-10 00:00:00
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