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power. Those triumphs set in stone our own perception that our exceptional status was unshakable.
    While we fought the fearsome ideologies of fascism and communism abroad, however, we turned a blind eye to an ideology that was undermining us from within. We allowed a watered-down socialism to creep in, take hold, and metastasize. We allowed it to slowly chip away at our fundamental principles until, eventually, it stood on equal ground. Once the anti-American radicals who embraced grand redistributionism saw the lack of firm resistance to their agenda, they pushed forward and increased their demands.
    Their grand strategy of global redistribution is based on two overarching and interlocking beliefs: first, that by definition , exceptionalism is unfair and unjust, and second, that whatever “exceptionalism” America has enjoyed has been earned at the expense of social and economic “justice.” America, they believe, must be stripped of its exceptionalism if that equalizing “justice” is to be achieved, and that exceptionalism must be farmed out globally in order to weaken America’s power, status, and influence. The United States must be reduced to just another country, such as Myanmar or Ecuador. Nothing special. Just another country on the United Nations roster. What the anti-American radicals were not prepared for and what came as a pleasant surprise to them was the extreme fragility of that exceptionalism.
    If America were to be broken as an exceptional power and remade as a redistributive nirvana, it needed to be done at the right moment and with the right Leading Man.
    In the modern center-right nation, a far-left presidential candidate could never win a general election, never mind govern from the progressive outer banks. They had tried and failed before with extremists such as Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry, so the Left had to recalibrate. If it were ever to seize the brass ring of the presidency and be able to leverage it into a full transformation of America, the Left needed to go beyond its previous helping of man, ideology, tank, and swift boat. It needed to find the perfect marriage of man and mission.
    It took them decades, but the leftists finally found it in the strange hologram of a man named Barack Hussein Obama.
    Who was he? Nobody really knew. But he came complete with an Etch-A-Sketch history, making him the perfect vessel for the Left. The biracial son of an absentee Kenyan communist father and an absentee Kansan communist mother who spent his youth in Indonesia and Hawaii, attended Occidental College and Columbia and Harvard universities, and who presented in an elegant way that was non-threatening to whites, Obama was almost too good to be true. America was about to meet the Fresh Prince of Chicago.
    What made him even more delectable to the Left was that he was no mere pretender to the throne. Obama was an authentic heir to the radical Left movement of the 1960s, which had been mainstreamed into American politics and culture via academia, Hollywood, and the media. And perhaps even more important, as the first viable black candidate for president, he would benefit from a tsunami of white guilt. A vote for Obama would allow white America to feel they had advanced toward vanquishing racism once and for all. A vote for Obama was a chance for many in white America to give themselves a feel-good moment. Even Joe Biden pronounced him “clean and articulate” during the 2008 Democratic primaries. So many people were consumed with proving their racial tolerance: Look, everybody! No racial complexes here! Just a supremely open-minded, enlightened post-racial voter!
    The emotional pull of the racial element was not to be underestimated. A long conga line of white leftists had been defeated for president. But a biracial leftist would be granted all kinds of passes, excuses, and protections. The race card, played subtly by Obama but boldly by others, would prove to be the most powerful weapon in