Obama was the turning point
I've long felt that, as the title of this post says, Obama was the turning point - not to some hoped-for racial reconciliation, but to a divisive leftist dominance in US politics. Here’s an article from yesterday that illustrates his malign influence [emphasis mine]:
At their Substack “Truth Over News,” independent journalists Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke report on the newly obtained transcript of a Jan. 17, 2017 meeting between then outgoing President Barack Obama and 17 unnamed “progressive” journalists, in which they discussed Trump’s upcoming term and allegations that Trump had colluded with Russia. As Carlson and Mahncke note, Obama knew the Russia allegations were false; his CIA director, John Brennan, had briefed him in late July on a “proposal from one of [Hillary Clinton’s] foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference from Russian security services.”…
It would be an understatement to say that the press fell for the scam; this entirely fake story became the dominant political narrative of the first two years of Trump’s presidency...
... it points to the origin point for the derangement of American politics over the past eight years: the Obama faction’s weaponization of the security state and the press to deny the American people a legitimate opportunity to reject their agenda at the ballot box... Indeed, both in and out of government, the party-state machine constructed by Obama did its best to create, in lieu of a governing program that could appeal to the majority of Americans, a vast public-private apparatus of censorship and thought control targeting dissident speech as “misinformation” - a project that was thwarted only by Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in 2022...
After the election of Obama, who was the first truly leftist president and the first Alinskyite president, the MSM became totally taken over by propaganda rather than partially, and the president became deceptive about his goals and methods. The Democratic Party began to veer more strongly and openly to the left as the Overton window moved.
Obama didn’t try to shape his policy to the needs and desires of the American people, but rather to do what he could to further a global rather than a US agenda, and if the people didn’t like it they were just going to have to accept it...
Related
Barack Obama: The Political Genius That Wasn't, by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann, American Greatness, 14 November 2024.
Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment, by David Samuels, Tablet Magazine, 19 December 2024.
How Trump Crushed Obama's Legacy, by David Samuels, UnHerd, 8 November 2024.
The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique, by Victor Davis Hanson, 12 December 2024.
The Obamas Get Their Comeuppance, by Jack Cashill, American Thinker, 18 November 2024:
... If Obama had any illusions about his control over events, he was rudely disabused of them on July 21, 2024. This was the Sunday on which Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris...
Accusing black men of misogyny did not fly with "the brothers" who saw through the black facade of both Harris and Obama...
When that tactic backfired, Obama ended the campaign - and the Obama era - the way he began his career: peddling racial hoaxes...
An estimated 40 percent of black men under 40 voted for Trump. More than half of Hispanic men did the same. "I voted for Obama because he was a black man," one African-American customer at a Pennsylvania barbershop told a CBS reporter. "That was a mistake."...
For the twenty years of his public life, Obama's stature as a black icon protected him from serious media scrutiny. On November 5, the iconoclasts prevailed...
Obama’s Weaponization of the DOJ, by Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Truth Over News, 12 November 2024: Obama’s DOJ Slush Fund used settlements from the 2008 financial crisis to fund left-wing activist groups that are still active today.
Obama and Russiagate: The Untold Story, by Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Truth Over News, 15 November 2024: Part 2 of our series on how Barack Obama undermined U.S. democracy.
Obama Fueled Russia Collusion Lies in Secret White House Meeting, by Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Truth Over News, 4 November 2024.
Obama’s Ukraine Cover Up, by Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Truth Over News, 20 November 2024.
Obama’s Ukraine Cover Up: Part 3 of our series on how Barack Obama undermined U.S. democracy, by Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Truth Over News, 29 November 2024.
Obama's Middle East Destabilization: Part 4 of our series on how Barack Obama undermined U.S. democracy, by Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Truth Over News, 1 December 2024:
Iran negotiated with a willing counterpart in the Obama Administration and emerged with its Nuclear Program slowed – but essentially intact. In return, Iran was given access to a huge pool of overseas cash and a flood of foreign investment. Iran could rebuild its economy and resume its nuclear program. It could also begin to spread armaments and terror throughout the middle east.
The horror we witnessed in Israel and the resulting spread of war, destabilization and conflict throughout the Middle East falls not only at the feet of Biden but with the originator of all of this. Barack Hussein Obama.
