Obama Out, McMorrow In

America’s hangover — abetting the ‘status quo.’

I wanted to be a car designer and I was living in my car. -Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, during a recent sit-down interview with Desi Lydic, “The Daily Show,” April 8 (1)

Did you think we could have a democracy without sacrificing (something)? That we could sit by and democracy would take care of itself? -Former President Barak Obama, Hamilton College, April 3 (2)

During the past few weeks, a split screen has emerged signifying as one observer shared, a “transition” within the Democrats’ ranks. On one screen the former President appeared on a stage at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York; on another a state Senator, book in hand (3), appeared on multiple stages across the liberal “media scape” — “TRMS”, the “Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” “The Daily Show”, to pitch her new book and to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senator from Michigan.

The disparity in tone was jarring but also portentous for what has become the future of political opposition to America’s descent into authoritarianism. Both political figures shared identical policy agendas. Where both differed was how they positioned their agendas in the age of Republican defection and defiance of America’s vaunted democratic principles of governing.