5 Ways Donald Trump’s Victory Is Barack Obama’s Legacy
9th November 2016
When a party loses a presidential election, especially one as eminently winnable as this, the primary blame has to go to the candidate. Hillary Clinton was a deeply flawed, uncharismatic, scandal-plagued candidate who ran a lackluster, uninspiring campaign where her main strategy was simply to run out the clock. After this, Democrats are going to have to retire “Dukakis” as their byword for electoral failure and replace it with “Hillary.”
But what most people haven’t realized yet is the extent to which this election loss is also the legacy of President Obama, on five different levels.
There has been a lot of discussion about how Trump is the New Kid On The Block and doesn’t know shit about the political life, but what is being lost sight of here is that Obama isn’t very far off of that mark himself. He’s never held a real job, he’s spent his life being a professional Affirmative Action Hire with a veneer of charm that has carried him far beyond anything that he deserved. ‘Community organizer’ to slacker state legislator to slacker Senator to slacker President — only in the last position has he had actually to perform, and were it not for the vested interest of the Crust in his Clever Plastic Disguise he’d have long since been revealed as the nobody he is in his essence. If Obama hadn’t had one black parent, he’d have gone nowhere.