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Bernie Sanders puts it bluntly: “Question: What does it say about a political party that has to repeatedly gerrymander districts to continue to hold power, that has to make it
They do, what they put forward and how the programs work over time. so, he has a lot riding on this. not just for the policy itself but for how we remember him over time. so if it were to fail or if it just continues to be this program that can t seem to get it right, that ruins eight years? it doesn t ruin eight years. there s other parts of his presidency, but this is the high profile piece of legislation. he has defined himself around this bill. so, if it s a program that doesn t work or is dismantled, even worse, i think it s going to be the first thing or one of the first things we write about his presidency, rather than his being a transformative president or a president who solved the biggest issues in domestic society. so, i do think it could have that effect. well, we ve still got a long way to see how that is written. political historian, julian zelizer, always a pleasure. thank you. thank you. do you think you have the
Speech. stand by, dana bash. joining me here in new york, another person to this panel, princeton university political historian julian zellezer. i got that right. okay. so is this a lot of people have been comparing this back to, you know, when george w. bush made his case for the war in iraq. saying this is very similar to, you know, they re both very similar. do you agree? i mean, is this an historic moment in the same sense for president barack obama as it was for george w. bush then? it s a very different context. obviously president bush did this after 9/11 and people were still thinking about that. the connection was still part of a debate that was taking place. president obama does this as iraq and the memories of that war loom large. that s part of the challenge that he faces some of the questions that are emerging. so they face it in very different political contexts and think that s some of the