Are You a Good Person? Or Are You a Bad Person?

Obama was a response to Jesse Jackson, says Julian Zelizer. elite saw the appeal ofJesse Jackson and appealing to marginalized people. They needed to exploit the identitarian aspect of that to keep class-based politics out of our elections. Obama's inner circle began to wonder if it was bad optics that all of his inner circle was white male. He turned the election into a referendum, not on him, but on us. We are the ones who were being voted on by ourselves,. And now Barack Obama emerged from the innards of the American soul.