{"entry":{"title":"The Liberal Hour","date":"Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:00:00 -0600","author":"Ross Douthat, New York Times","description":"
I naturally preferred my own version<\/a> of President Obama\u2019s second inaugural to the speech he actually delivered yesterday, but the substance of the two was roughly similar. The president clearly feels that his re-election both reflects and ratifies a larger leftward shift in American politics: His address reached backward to ground this new progressive era in the American past, offered explicit nods to the demographic groups and constituencies whose present-day growth has made it possible, and then sketched out an agenda suited to a more left-of-center future \u2014 climate change legislation and green industrial policy, a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, the universalization of gay marriage, new gun control laws, etc.<\/p><\/div>","original_link":"http:\/\/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/22\/the-liberal-hour\/"}}