In Chicago, Obama Affirms Progressive Values While Calling for Bigger Tent

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At his foundationโ€™s Democracy Forum, Obama advocates pluralism in light of the 2024 election results.

CHICAGOโ€”In a speech at his foundationโ€™s Democracy Forum, former President Barack Obama advocated pluralism to an audience of Democrats still reeling from the partyโ€™s losses in this election cycle.

โ€œIn a democracy, power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions and making room in those coalitions not only for the woke, but also for the waking,โ€ the former president said at the Obama Foundation forum in Chicago on Dec. 5.

The speech mixed calls for pragmatism among the former presidentโ€™s political allies with appeals to identity, nested within the big theme of pluralism in a democracy Obama said was โ€œbuilt on a deeply entrenched caste system.โ€

A pluralistic society, according to Merriam-Webster, is one in which โ€œmembers of diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups maintain and develop their traditional culture or special interest within the confines of a common civilization.โ€

Obama discussed the concept in relation to the U.S. Constitution, describing that founding document as โ€œa rulebook for practicing pluralism.โ€

He also discussed the outcome of Novemberโ€™s vote before a sympathetic audience in the city where he first rose to prominence, saying the country that had delivered the presidency and narrow House and Senate majorities to the GOP was โ€œsplit down the middle.โ€

Obama said a few of his friends had questioned the pluralism focus in light of the election results.

โ€œAs far as they were concerned, the election proved that democracyโ€™s pretty far down on peopleโ€™s priority list,โ€ he said. โ€œI understood their skepticism.

โ€œItโ€™s easy to give democracy lip service when it delivers the outcomes we want. Itโ€™s when we donโ€™t get what we want that our commitment to democracy is tested.โ€

The aftermath of Trumpโ€™s victory in 2016 was marked by a partisan dispute over alleged Russian interference tipping the balance of that election. Four years after an outcome that many Democrats and media figures characterized as illegitimate, Trump contested the results of the 2020 presidential election in the midst of an unprecedented COVID-19 response and involved a large increase in mail-in voting compared to past contests.

Byย Nathan Worcester

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