Summary: we did the right thing.
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Mandate with Destiny (The New Yorker)
In short, the right declared that Bush won a decisive mandate in 2004. However, they say that Obama, who won far more convincingly in 2012, has no mandate at all.
The political right in the USA is dangerously out of touch with reality.
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity