This Wall Street Journal piece reminded me of what I wrote the day after the 2008 election about the future of the Obama presidency in a piece titled "Hail Ants":
The inevitable shattering of liberal ideals as they collide with the inescapable facts of reality is never pretty. But it’s a lesson I suppose we need to learn every generation or so. Obama was elected by the young; the most naïve portion of our electorate. And it’s in the disappointment of liberal children that conservatives are usually born. Carter’s malaise speech brought the Reagan conservatives to the fore, and Obama’s future version of it will no doubt do the same. Eventually everyone gets tired of making the same mistakes over and over. And when Obama starts raising taxes on those who would otherwise create jobs, driving businesses overseas, and massively increasing the cost of energy, the young will begin to get the point.
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