[lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why."

[Wojtek S]

Joanna: "But the initial political context for this administration was
huge/unprecedented grass-roots support that elected a Obama despite
his race and inexperience. That support was based on certain promises
O made during the campaign. "

[WS:] With all due respect, I think you are fooling yourself.  O won
(by a relatively small margin) mainly because the economy went south
prior to the elections, and in a typical fashion, "da people" wanted
to punish the party in power that according to American mythology is
solely responsible for the economy.  His "progressive" image might
have had an appeal to a small fraction of die hard liberals, but not
to the population at large.  AFAICT, most professional people are
neo-liberal at heart, and most working class is fairly conservative.

Wojtek