One of the most amazing things to me about the campaign and the election was that Obama won without sounding notes about “diversity,” which has been the slogan of Left-liberalism and its academic foundations for some years now.

Rather, he employed the exact opposite strategy of Karl Rove’s for George Bush, which was to divide the American people into segments and then to do a little to appeal to each. (This is how David Frum has described the Rove strategy.) Evidently Rove hoped that this strategy would develop a permanent Republican majority. McCain/Palin employed this strategy to some extent with the blue collar and Joe Six Pack and Joe the Plumber talk.

Obama, the first plausible black presidential candidate in American history, actually addressed the American people as a whole, and when he evoked the language of class, it was to speak of the middle class. And while Obama spoke of his victory as the triumph of American principles, McCain spent most of his concession speech rehearsing American’s sins. What an irony for Obama to win with what should have been a Republican approach, but it shows how utterly the party lost its way in recent years. The good news is that now they will be forced to rethink and rebuild