"Some argue that the President's support stems from economic anxiety at a time of rapid technological innovation that is creating demands for adaptation many cannot meet, so many that they dominate US politics at the national level. Alternatively, his support may be the consequence of an irreversible cultural malaise, or of an inattentive public failing to guard itself against authoritarian encroachment, as much alarmed commentary now suggests. If that proves the case, American decline will be the natural result of cultural corrosion."
- Kori Schake