Obama ran like a populist, but governed like Chuck Schumer. Meanwhile, the GOP of his day was dominated by its "grassroots" group, the Tea Party movement that was funded and organized by the Kochs but who slipped the leash and became an ungovernable force that conquered the party. It turns out that the kind of people who get really involved in party activism are, well, *passionate* (a less charitable term might be *cranks* - and I say this as a certified, grade-A crank).
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