That said, to suggest his legislative priorities aren't radical is strange. The man "pushed through" an $800 BILLION pork-filled "stimulus" bill. I cannot imagine someone suggesting that isn't "radical".
Back to words having meaning, "radical," by definition, is at the edge, way outside the mainstream, abnormal, extreme, nutty. As long as he is taking heat from his left for relative moderation, he simply cannot be considered radical. As long as his approval ratings are high, meaning he has support from the majority or even a large plurality, he can't, by definition, be radical. It's all relative to the mainstream. It may be radical historically but not in current context. Historically unusual is not the standard. Being way outside the mainstream is the standard. No matter how outside your own sense of what is appropriate he may be, he can't have so many people farther out there than he is and be deemed "radical." |
