CHICAGO—In a speech at his foundation’s Democracy Forum, former President Barack Obama advocated pluralism to an audience of Democrats still reeling from the party’s losses in this election cycle.
“In a democracy, power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions and making room in those coalitions not only for the woke, but also for the waking,” the former president said at the Obama Foundation forum in Chicago on Dec. 5.
The speech mixed calls for pragmatism among the former president’s political allies with appeals to identity, nested within the big theme of pluralism in a democracy Obama said was “built on a deeply entrenched caste system.”…