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Definition: Obamaism = A case of overwhelming political timidity or utter lack of faith in your own political vision or simple opportunism. One can parse this adjective in so many ways, it is a truly elastic concept. It encompasses Clinton, Holbrooke, Geithner,  Summers ; it could be synonymous with Clintonism or  New Democrat; an intellectual concept as big tent.      

Definition: New Democrat =  A conscious decision to forget the New Deal as the authentic ‘Third Way’ and for reasons of personal political ambition, to court the oligarchs, the plutocrats and the kleptocrats. All the while propagandizing your virtue as expressive of a necessary realpolitik-a two dollar word for political opportunism.    

Definition: Reaganism = The self-willed forgetting of the suffering of others and the political power to make that suffering irrelevant to  the America’s civic endeavor.