There’s hope for the Democrats if you look hard enough, and some people are looking quite hard. To Jonathan Alter and Jonathan Cohn, President Obama is FDR redux, with a noble array of historical feats that have marked him for greatness.

The problem is that these feats have unsettled the public, which slapped him hard in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and can’t seem to wait till November to do it again. To Jonathan Chait (if you still love Obama, you may be a “Jonathan”), this is all right, as while the president’s ratings have dropped like a rock the Republicans’ ratings have dropped even further, and people hate them even more.

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