Barack Obama's election was the apotheosis of the academic left's worldview

And since that halcyon day for our word wranglers and scribblers the trajectory has been downward into abject decadence. Nobody really believes the left's narrative anymore do they?

Hersh from The Times if Israel:

In retrospect, the emergence of Barack Obama on the national stage was not an expression of new thinking. On the contrary, Obama stood for an academic orthodoxy that had become firmly established in American universities in the previous several decades.

.http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/reframing-the-enemy-after-frances-911/