Lukewarm response to Obama's presidency was a 'rubicon crossing moment' for many people, he says. He argues that the administration sat back and did very little while the financial sector got off without really paying much of a price. Luke: Obama presented himself as a champion of progress and of democratic renewal. And so we all ended up watching, as this new liberal administration talked a pretty good game when it was campaigning.
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History," the abandoned hopes of the Obama era, the rise of Trumpism and the inability—or unwillingness—of Liberalism to offer a moral and more just vision for the world.