Is There a Bama?

The idea of a bama as a figure of progress becomes very shaky, because how do you define progress, and what does that mean? And i think a lot about that behind the closed doors. I remember in two thousand eight, watching this all play out, and like, the first thing obaba did after locking up the presidential nomination was speak at apec. So i want to talk about these ideological priors and these kind of assumptions about the end of history.