In Chicago, Obama Affirms Progressive Values While Calling for Bigger Tent

At his foundation’s Democracy Forum, Obama advocates pluralism in light of the 2024 election results.
In Chicago, Obama Affirms Progressive Values While Calling for Bigger Tent
Former President Barack Obama during the Obama Foundation's 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Nathan Worcester
Updated:
0:00

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.

Nathan Worcester
Nathan Worcester
Author
Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
twitter
truth