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Mandate for Conservatives: Make Obama a Historical Anomaly

By Troy Senik
Thursday, October 01 2015

When I penned my first column for the Center for Individual Freedom early in 2009, we didn’t yet have the full measure of Barack Obama. For those with eyes to see, it was clear that the new president was coming to office with a more explicit and comprehensive progressive agenda than any president since Woodrow Wilson. But we didn’t yet know how it would all play out. Now, as I pen my final column* six-and-a-half years later, the mystery is gone. The president meant exactly what he said when he promised to “fundamentally [transform] the United States of America.” There’s…

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