The Legacy of President Obama

[Mr. Perfect]

There was a thread on this but I can't find it. If you can find it let me know.

Until then;

[Mr. Perfect]

Astonishing disconnection from reality.

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[Mr. Perfect]

Dangerous and astonishing delusions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/p ... hodes.html

Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump. Mr. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced. “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.

In the weeks after Mr. Trump’s election, Mr. Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes. At times, the departing president took the long view, at other points, he flashed anger. He called Mr. Trump a “cartoon” figure who cared more about his crowd sizes than any particular policy. And he expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on American history.

[Mr. Perfect]

Have you guys seen this yet? Comedy gold.

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[Mr. Perfect]

Poor poor Rhodes. So many tears.

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[Mr. Perfect]

Is Trump taking it too far?

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[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

all those Ben Rhodes vids are draggy....... lets lilt it up a bit....'>.......

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[Parodite]

Dangerous and astonishing delusions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/p ... hodes.html

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

The populism that wants a Brexit, America First, controlled borders etc. is not a fall back to tribalism or mindless nationalism but the desire to save democracy, national autonomy and sovereignty from supra-national/globalist power blocks whose greatest enemies are national democracies. Power and money are driving these globalist forces without any concern for democratic institutions, values, national borders. Obama didn't want to be the chieftain of a local territorial tribe, he wanted to preside over an Empire.

[Mr. Perfect]

Wow. Your words are saturated with truth.

[Nonc Hilaire]

The tension between group identity and individualism is an inherent trait. You can see it most easily in teenagers, but everybody has it and it never goes away.