One year in: How Obama gave us Trump

[TalkRadio]

First off, Obama gave the country Trump by first giving the country the least likable Democratic nominee in modern history. Picking her as secretary of state put her in line as his successor. His refusal to pre-endorse Vice President Joe Biden in 2016 basically cleared old Uncle Joe out of the field. Also, Obama left behind a party so impoverished and indebted that party powerbrokers had no choice but to tilt the nominating process toward the corporatist fundraising behemoth that is Hillary. The fact that her campaign was sustaining the party's finances speaks to that.

Secondly, Obama helped Trump win during the campaign by lumping Trump in with all other Republicans. The intention was to make all Republicans seem icky and abnormal; the unintended consequence was to make Trump seem much more normal. In October 2016, when Clinton started posting double-digit leads in Michigan and finally pulled ahead in Ohio, Obama shifted from his tack of saying Trump “sure wasn't conservative,” to the tack of lumping Trump in with all Republicans. In Ohio in mid-October, Obama tried to lump Trump with Rob Portman, a staid and sensible establishment Republican senator. The aftermath: Portman maintained his huge leads, and Trump pulled ahead in Ohio, which he won in a blowout.

Third, and most importantly, Obama’s administration helped Trump beat Hillary, because it scared conservatives into voting for Trump. Obama, by weaponizing the federal government against religious institutions and individuals, escalated the culture war to the point that many conservatives realized no peace was possible. They were willing to vote for a man like Trump if that’s what it took to keep HHS and the DOJ from shutting down their schools and businesses. A judge on the Supreme Court who would overturn Hobby Lobby and rule against the Little Sisters of the Poor would leave freedom of conscience mortally vulnerable.

Obama’s culture warfare raised the stakes, and made Trump seem a necessary evil to many religious conservatives, probably enough to flip Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and thus the election.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/one-year-in-how-obama-gave-us-trump/article/2646127

 

[EternalFantasies]

I wrote mine so many times. The title was:

How Bush, McCain & Palin, gave us Obama.

 

[Luk]

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[WoundedKnee]

Honestly, I think the American Media had more to do with it than President Obama. In the last two years not only was he a lame-duck President, but the results of his policies had left him politically impotent. It was the same media that you saw yesterday trying to prove to a doctor that Trump is a nutter, maybe even suffering from dementia, that set Hillary up for her great fall, that made her feel like she could dismiss the people that Trump was embracing as a basket of deplorables. Everyone already knew that Obama detested them for clinging to guns, god and Bibles (and their dependence upon fossil fuels), but Hillary let them know that she felt that they were even lower than that and the media amplified that message by trying to defend her and prove that it was true.

It was the Krugman-led media that kept repeating the mantra that the Obama economy was not only a triumph over the legacy of the Bush economy, but that an anemic economy was the new perpetual normal. Obama might have intimated that, but it really took an uncritical media to hammer home the message to working America: We don't believe in you and we believe that we have to control you and protect you from your basic instinct of wanting to create wealth. Wealth is best handled by experts, not by you or your efforts.

 

[loreday]

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Spamming threads with ageist memes?
Cute!
I keep seeing such things from the Liberal Progressive Left.

 

[Rightguide]

Spamming threads with ageist memes?
Cute!
I keep seeing such things from the Liberal Progressive Left.

It's all they have. They fail to mention he's at least twice their age as well.

 

[Hypoxia]

Tromp triumphant:

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[Luk]

It's all they have. They fail to mention he's at least twice their age as well.

You dopey fuckknuckle. It has nothing to do with age but I can see why you're so defensive considering that you and 45 share the same body type and lack of definition. 45 is when younger than you!

 

[someoneyouknow]

It was the Krugman-led media that kept repeating the mantra that the Obama economy was not only a triumph over the legacy of the Bush economy, but that an anemic economy was the new perpetual normal.

It was a triumph over the Bush economy:

https://ourfuture.org/20141208/bush-vs-obama-on-the-economy-in-3-simple-charts

It was actually hacks like the con artist who kept saying how bad things were despite them making money hand over fist thanks to Obama's policies. In fact, two weeks after the con artist assumed power, he was saying how great things were, as were many of the very same people who 14 days earlier were whining how bad things were. Nothing had changed, no new policies were in place, yet suddenly the economy wasn't as bad as they said it was.

Thus proving why the con artist loves the uneducated.

 

[lovecraft68]

All over social media and these boards, libs are obsessing with Trump's size. I don't have to add anything else to that.

 

[WoundedKnee]

It was the Krugman-led media that kept repeating the mantra that the Obama economy was not only a triumph over the legacy of the Bush economy, but that an anemic economy was the new perpetual normal.

It was a triumph over the Bush economy:

https://ourfuture.org/20141208/bush-vs-obama-on-the-economy-in-3-simple-charts

It was actually hacks like the con artist who kept saying how bad things were despite them making money hand over fist thanks to Obama's policies. In fact, two weeks after the con artist assumed power, he was saying how great things were, as were many of the very same people who 14 days earlier were whining how bad things were. Nothing had changed, no new policies were in place, yet suddenly the economy wasn't as bad as they said it was.

Thus proving why the con artist loves the uneducated.

Sorry, but you are wrong in your assertions. The market is driven by millions upon millions of individual human bets on how they view their economic future. The rally began just as soon as it began to sink in, Hillary was not going to be President and they bet that, in the future, Trump was going to make a change in policy, which he has done, firstly by rolling back regulations and then with the tax cut. In similar fashion, especially with his anti-business rhetoric, President Obama made people fearful as to the bounty of the future and he created a self-fulfilling prophesy of low growth because of his attitudes towards business and the environment.