I’d go a little easier on W.
People joined in to vote for Obama, not because they believed in him, but because he was black, and everybody wanted a little bit of history.
Whites especially voted for him, and independents, and mostly to get a black man in the WH, despite his qualifications.
Remember, he won his primary too. Clinton, of the evils, was clearly the best of them. I begged Democrats to vote for Hillary, because as bad as she was, Obama makes her look like Zell Miller.
I have D family members, all white, all professional, who kept the newspapers from the day he was elected.
Some had them framed to commemorate the event. “Yes we did!”
Make no mistake, White Guilt elected Barak Obama, nothing more. Now we get to reap the benefit of electing the next American Idol.
I don’t dismiss your argument completely, but let’s remember that Bush barely squeaked out a win over the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry. Then along came John McCain, another even worse ditz.
Somehow to Bush and McCain, Conservatism became a dirty four letter word.
Look, don’t take my word for it. The party leaders run from us like scalded dogs.
I didn’t coin the term, the Reagan Era is over.
James Carville and the left declared war on Conservatism in the late 1990s. And so far all we’ve declared in return is bipartisanship.