Here’s what last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions signify: Old America has conceded to the New America.
The New America is the coalition that came to power with President Barack Obama in 2008 and gave him the winning majority. It’s a coalition of groups marginalized for most of U.S. history: racial and religious minorities, immigrants, young people, gays, single mothers, working women and unchurched Americans who claim no religious affiliation.
What holds the coalition together is a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Precisely the values the Supreme Court affirmed with its Obamacare decision on Thursday and its gay-marriage ruling on Friday. CONT.
Bill Schneider (George Mason U.), Reuters