What Makes O'Bama Tick?

There is a really interesting analysis of Obama's political philosophy in an article by Michael Beran in City Journal. One interesting excerpt:

The politics of consensus that Obama favors is incompatible with the Founders’ adversarial system, which permits those whom he disparages as “ideological minorities” to take stands on principle that, at times, frustrate the national consensus. Obama makes it clear that there is no place, in the politics he advocates, for those “absolutists” who would defy the community. The “ideological core of today’s GOP,” he writes, is “absolutism, not conservatism,” an absolutism driven by those who prize “absolute truth” over “communal values.” This commitment to absolute truth, he argues, stands in the way of a politics that can solve our problems and change our lives.

So what happens to those of us who do not submit to the 'communal values'? Many fellow travelers of Obama's ideology believe that dissenting opinions should be suppressed. Wil Barack be any different?