@John I think we’re just going to have to disagree about this one. I endured the Obama presidency, particularly his first term, as a painstaking catastrophe, betrayal in drips on the issues I followed most and most cared about.

I think he destroyed the moral fabric of the country. He ran so beautifully, so eloquently, as a change agent, the defended and reinforced and imposed brutal economic arrangements when they were collapsing under their own contradictions. 1/

@John By doing so, in my view, he discredited idealism, the possibility of positive change rather than zero-sum victory of my people over yours. I think that is what gave us Trump, quite directly. If there are going to be winners and losers in a stratified society, what team do I have to join so my kids will be among the winners? Trump’s racism was one answer to that question. 2/

@John Anyway, you’ll probably find it unfair and tiresome, but you can read me longform on this. My whole archive is full of the agony in real time, but a recent take is here. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/11/30/obama-was-the-most-destructive-political-figure-of-my-lifetime/index.html /fin