We’re told one reason Obama’s popularity is falling in various polls is because the hard left have lost faith in him. The next leftist to take up the mantle of saving the republic from the scourge of individual liberty will learn from Obama’s defection from the left’s vision. That ideologue will capture the hearts of the hard left and also collect the drifting center independents in the deal. When they all fall in line behind the next strong man we will have our American dictator.