Newsweek

Our home boy Jon Meacham has a new edition of Newsweek out that I have got to actually buy. It puts into words a reality that fueled the passion that drove me this past election. Socialism is a word that inspires visions of the depths of hell in my political worldview.

From Politico Playbook:

THE BIG IDEA – Newsweek editor Jon Meacham: '[W]ithout a great deal of fanfare, the America of 2009 has become a more socialist country ... Harvard economist Ken Rogoff predicts the United States will move toward 'a more centralized, redistributional health-care system, as Europe already has,' with a greater emphasis on the environment, higher regulation and increased protectionism. Rogoff's conclusion: 'I take the 2008 U.S. elections as marking a turn toward continental Europe.'

Meacham and Evan Thomas, in their 'violin' introducing the cover package: 'History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion. Bush brought the Age of Reagan to a close; now Obama has gone further, reversing Bill Clinton's end of big government.'