“Progressives find it hard to imagine that there are others who in good faith don’t want the better world they’re offering and will fiercely resist it.”

' Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/witnessing-the-obama-presidency-from-start-to-finish' by George Packer, The New Yorker, June 18, 2018.

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