In 2008, candidate Barack Obama pledged to "change the trajectory of America," to discard the political triangulation of the Clinton years and transform the Democratic Party. President Obama has remade his party, but he has not changed most Americans.   National Journal’s Josh Krashaar wrote: “[T]here's no doubt [Obama has] successfully pushed Democrats to adopt his favored policies with minimal dissent -- and that will have lasting consequences for many elections to come. Despite uneven personal relations with his own party in Congress, there have been very few instances when his party's members have split from his governing course, even on issues where the politics would dictate they should.” Democrats’ complacent fealty to Obama’s hard-left policies poses a generational electoral problem for Democrats, but, in a two-party system, an anxious American electorate faces another quandary: the controlling wing of the...(Read Full Article)