巴拉克·奥巴马总统的直觉或许是个例外，但他不仅要对抗美国强大的保守势力，还要对抗比保守势力更糟的以茶党形式存在的蛊惑人心的民粹主义 — — 这可能导致他在2012年竞选失败，并进而严重损害美国的利益。
President Barack Obama’s instincts may be an exception here, but he is fighting powerful hidebound forces in the United States, as well as a demagogic populism, in the form of the Tea Party, that is far worse – and that might defeat him in 2012, seriously damaging America in the process.