The modern Democrat Party began to take shape in 2008 after presidential nominee Barack Obama won the presidency, which seems like an eternity ago considering the massive shift in the political zeitgeist. Obama ran against the policies of the Bush Administration, particularly the policies of endless war and restrictions on civil liberties, and swept into office on a mandate of peace and prosperity. It was the failure of Obama to live up to his mandates that would enable the political shift that was to come, as he initiated disastrous regime overthrows in Libya and Syria, funded the rise of new terror groups such as ISIS, doubled down on the Patriot Act with NDAA indefinite detention, refused to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and did little if anything to curb the excesses of the corporate elite.
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