Barack Obama once delivered the line Republicans never let him forget: “You didn’t build that.”
Today, the Democratic Party could say something similar to him. Barack Obama didn’t build Barack Obama alone.
The transformation Obama promised in 2008 is still under way, and he is content to let others finish it.
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The talent, intelligence, and ambition were his. But the stage belonged to the Democratic Party. Its donors supplied the money, its convention supplied the audience, and its voters supplied the office that transformed a little-known Illinois politician into a global figure.
Now the institution that helped build Obama is struggling to decide what it believes.
Obama turned 65 this month. He is four years younger than Donald Trump was when Trump descended the escalator and began remaking the Republican
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