Did the U.S. Turn Socialist Just Because Obama Won?

TNR’s Chait gets it wrong thinking Americans are all nouveau left-wingers just because Barack Obama won the White House Jonathan Chait is all upset at the Democratic Party. Hs is damning their eyes for not blindly accepting every extremist, left-wing idea that President Obama would like to implement. Chait is wailing that Congressional Democrats are standing athwart Obama's radical agenda just when he assumes we are at a "once-in-a-generation chance for the Democratic Party to reshape" the country. Chait is right, of course, that Congressional Democrats are not bending over blindly for Obama's agenda and many elected officials are jealously...