Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
After Virginia, Fight the Culture War With the Aim of Victory | Opinion
newsweek.comGlenn Youngkin's victory over former governor and longtime Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe, ought to be a watershed moment for the trajectory of American conservative politics and the Republican Party.The sweep of the Old Dominion's governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general positions, making for the first statewide GOP victories in the once-solidly red commonwealth since 2009, amounts to a repudiation of the decades of pablum dished out by Republicans' well-paid, but myopic, K Street consultant class.
That conventional wisdom, best encapsulated by the Republican National Committee's (RNC) infamous "autopsy" following Mitt Romney's defeat to Barack Obama, held that the party's electoral path forward was best realized by sticking to.
