In January 2010, President Barack Obama walked into the well of the House of Representatives to deliver the annual State of the Union address, and declared: “A new decade stretches before us.”Mr. Obama acknowledged that Americans were frustrated and angry, particularly after a bruising financial crisis, and tired of the political shouting around them. Then he sounded a more optimistic note: “In this new decade, it’s time the American people get a government that matches their decency, that embodies their strength.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 18, 2019 00:56 UTC