bipartisan

Red and Blue Americans have grown so dangerously far apart, they should be considered different ethnic groups

My column for the mag coming out this week points out the inherent tension between Obama’s twin themes of Change and Unity, and praises the president for knowing which one to ditch. I’m not a fan of bipartisanship ( and its many kissing cousins — postpartisanship, consensus, pragmatism, centrism, Third Wayism, radical-middlism, etc.), and while I’m glad I didn’t see Matt Bai’s nice piece on Obama’s understanding of bipartisanship until after I filed,  I agree entirely with Bai that Obama has kept what is worthwhile about it.