Sentence:  The country's first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who <WSD>disdained</WSD> the very idea of government, on the other. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.