Trump’s hatred for Obama, the—let’s put it how he doubtlessly thinks it—uppity black guy who dared make fun of him at the annual Correspondents dinner some years back, has been obvious for ages. First he spent years claiming that Obama wasn’t born in the United States and was thus invalid to be president (which eventually he turned around and claimed that Hillary Clinton had asserted and that he had disproven through his relentless and thorough investigation). Then, once the antiquated Electoral college ignored the popular vote and installed him into office, he has relentlessly and methodically attempted to undo every single thing that the Obama administration achieved.
It’s an impressive list. He withdrew from the Iranian anti-nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord. He terminated Obama’s DACA (Dreamer) program that protected young immigrants. He has consistently undone numerous environmental protection rules, ranging from rescinding a 2015 law to prevent fracking on public lands to overseeing a GOP tax overhaul that eliminated a ban on oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Currently he is suing to put an end to the Affordable Care Act, because right in the middle of a spreading pandemic is exactly the time to end medical coverage for millions of Americans. What he is consistently doing is truly unprecedented for the office of the presidency: He is steadily and determinedly taking as many steps as he can to hurt the people of the United States. Physically hurt them, damage their environment, and endanger their health. Attribute it to whatever you wish: His basic sociopathy. His lack of any sign of empathy. His syphilitic reasoning. His fundamental misogyny. The fact that he’s bone stupid. Whatever reason you want to choose, that’s fine.
What it comes down to is that Obama remains far more admired than Trump. According to YouGov.com, “Barack Obama is the most popular Democrat and the most famous. Barack Obama is described by fans as: Intelligent, Presidential, Good Speaker, Stands up for ordinary people and A leader.” These are not words that are ever applied to Trump, not even by his supporters. His supporters simply excel in insulting anyone who disagrees while declaring “Trump 2020” as some sort of mantra. Pressed to apply any of those adjectives to Trump, they will simply turn around and toss more invective. Currently critics are busy declaring that Obama should be locked up without bothering to specify what crimes were committed during his scandal-free administration. And let us remember that it was scandal free despite incessant GOP investigation as part of its endless endeavors to make a reality Moscow Mitch’s determination that Obama remain a one-term president. Remember when the big deal was that he wore a tan suit? I love those days.
When Obama left office his approval rating was around fifty-six percent and it’s only gone up since then. Trump’s latest approval rating remains anchored at forty-nine percent, and that’s despite the fact that Americans tend to rally-round-the-flag for presidents during a time of national catastrophe. Indeed, the only reason it remains stalled at that number is that his support is stuck on partisan lines. It literally doesn’t matter how many people die, Trump’s base cannot admit that they screwed up and backed the wrong horse.
Yet astoundingly Trump seems to believe that his best path to reelection is by reminding us about his predecessor. If he had any functioning brain cells, he’d realize that he needs to stoke the popular calumny that Joe Biden—whose occasional misspeaks are doubtless caused by his stammer—is mentally impaired. Remember back when Hillary Clinton slightly stumbled and people freaked out about it? Voters love to take any display of weakness and highlight it beyond any scope of sanity. So if he continued taking that tack with Biden, it might influence people.
But his hatred of Obama and his need to undo his administration overshadows even common sense. So this week he invented a brand new scandal, “Obamagate,” and since then has been desperately searching for an actual charge for it to be about. When pressed for specifics, he was unable to produce them. Since then the conservative media has been fabricating charges related to Michael Flynn, the man who Bill Lower-The-Barr decided not to prosecute for his admitted lying to the FBI, thus sparing Trump having to spend political capital by pardoning the person he previously fired. Despite the fact that Obama and Biden followed completely standard intelligence procedures, they are desperately trying to pretend that the two of them did something untoward and illegal. Trump and his idiot right wing supporters are loudly declaring that Obama and Biden should be jailed, despite the fact that they can’t actually cite a single illegal act that they committed.
You know what? I hope Trump keeps up this angle.
Because the more he brings up Obama, the more he’s just going to remind people that things were pretty okay under his presidency. That his administration was scandal free. That he fought to protect the environment. That he created the increasingly popular Obamacare, which Trump has relentlessly sworn to get rid of and replace with a non-existent far better plan. That he didn’t spend hours on Twitter attacking anyone who pìššëd him off, and never fired back at the people who questioned everything from his religion to his status as a U.S. citizen. That he was a man who believed in the importance of America rather than himself, and that man selected and trusted Joe Biden, so maybe we should, too.
So by all means, Trump. As the death toll tops eighty thousand…as it will be over a hundred thousand by June, and likely be over a million by the end of the year…you keep focusing on Obama. You keep reminding us of the man who contained Ebola. Who left you a sixty-nine page book on how to deal with a pandemic which you ignored. Who is a far better man than you’ll ever be, and whose vice president may actually be able to start undoing the horrendous mess you’ve made of this country if he’s elected, despite your best efforts to short circuit the actual electoral process. You keep at it.
See how much good it does you.
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So the Senate {on a party-line vote -I a, so NOT surprised i could just MOULT!} has confirmed Trump’s choice for Director of National Intelligence – a Texas hosenose hack whose only qualification seems to be that when der Fooey says “Green”, he says “And a beautiful deep green it is, sir”.
This guy has no real intelligence experience {or apparent intelligence} but he’ll tell Trump the we have always been at war with Eastasia when der Fooey asks what’s happening.