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Progressives are the last bastion of unbounded exceptionalism. The unblinking moral duty to redeem our country and the world by recasting both in their image reflects a city on a hill, God is on our side sense of manifest destiny that would have made Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt blush.

Certain that they alone can see how the arc of history is bending, they feel duty-bound to align humanity with the universe.

This spirit, however, often puts them at odds with American democracy. So assured of the rightness of their cause, they cannot fathom good faith reasons why some might oppose their policies on a range of issues, from immigration and race to the role of government. They are, after all, informed by selfless reason and expertise. Only defects of the mind and the soul – white supremacy, Christian nationalism, the naked ignorance of deplorables – can explain their defeats.

Back in 2016, they assumed President Obama had ushered in a golden age of progressivism. They saw his eight years as a high-water mark of the presidency, filled, as the New York Times reported this week, with epic achievements on the economy, health care, and foreign policy spearheaded by a man who was the epitome of decency. And yet the Times also reports that the administration’s best and the brightest were gobsmacked by Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. It was “inconceivable” to “Obama and his team that populist disenchantment with the establishment, globalization and demographic changes would elevate a figure they scorned.”

Obama’s last White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, correctly observed, “The outcome of the election was a direct rebuke of everything that we had been trying to do for the last 10 years.”

What the Times tendentiously ignores – and Paul Sperry detailed in a recent article for........

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