On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt
Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital,
Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to
the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism.
In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his
potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh
as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the
United States toward European-style social democracy, which was
precisely the New Party’s goal.
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