One of the hardest tasks for partisan voters is watching their champion spend time on the concerns of the opposition, but a president is obligated to see the issues of concern to Americans not in his political base. A president is obligated to see systemic racism or the threat to the future felt by residents of small towns and rural areas that are thinning under economic churn. Partisans have warped those issues, but that does not make them less real. A president must understand the difference and not exploit those issues.
