Trump and America bury the Obama doctrine

Judging by their lectures in the campaign’s closing weeks, Barack and Michelle Obama are surely very disappointed in the American people today: We’ve all once again fallen short of their expectations ..

.that we vote like a bunch of Europeans.Sharing in the disappointment are the editors of The New York Times, whose site for much of Wednesday was topped by:‘TRUMP’S AMERICA’VICTORY CHANGES NATION’S SENSE OF ITSELFThat led a “news analysis” (i.e., an editorial like this one, but pretending otherwise) from the paper’s Peter Baker bemoaning the public’s terrible, senseless decision, complete with references to Mussolini.OK, fine: Trump’s victory may change Baker and the Obamas’ sense of America — but that was always their self-flattering fantasy, a cover for their deep contempt for the public as it actually is and has been. What Americans voted for Tuesday, including many with a deep distaste for Trump’s persona and theatrics, is a return to a time before Obama and an end to a radical doctrine he created (that became liberal cant) of social division, grievance and forced social engineering.They voted for prosperity for all. Peace through strength.

Sane social policies that don’t presume our nation was built on bigotry nor insist you need to be a biologist to say what a woman is.Which is what the nation thought it was voting for back in 2008 to launch the Obama era.Then, voters were sick of seemingly pointless wars, appalled and impoverished by a ruinous-to-average-folks financial crisis. While many took an added pleasure in voting in our first black president, we weren’t looking for a progressive revolution.But Obama, like a kid born on third base who thinks he’s hit a triple, saw himself as a visionary prophet — and forced that revolution on us anyway.Voters responded with the “shellacking” of the 2010 midterms.Yes, they re-elected Obama in 2012 — but only because he managed to paint his opponent as an enemy of the...