his presidency really did put the nails in the coffin of liberal progressivism for me. before it was possible to believe that the inequality and bigotry ingrained in the American social order could be rectified with bourgeois democracy and representative identity politics. a black “community organizer” telling us out of one side of his mouth that he’d roll back the excesses of the christian nationalist that came before him and then just maintaining them while giving us nothing was too obscene to ignore.
you give him too much credit because he didnt just maintain christian nationalism in so many ways he advanced it along with white supremacy in general too
all presidents are bastards by virtue of the bourgeois class dictatorship; this is axiomatic of the US form of government. Obama merely proved through practice what was already known in theory.
my hot take is the one good thing obama did was prove that black men can be shit presidents, too
his presidency really did put the nails in the coffin of liberal progressivism for me. before it was possible to believe that the inequality and bigotry ingrained in the American social order could be rectified with bourgeois democracy and representative identity politics. a black “community organizer” telling us out of one side of his mouth that he’d roll back the excesses of the christian nationalist that came before him and then just maintaining them while giving us nothing was too obscene to ignore.
you give him too much credit because he didnt just maintain christian nationalism in so many ways he advanced it along with white supremacy in general too
all presidents are bastards by virtue of the bourgeois class dictatorship; this is axiomatic of the US form of government. Obama merely proved through practice what was already known in theory.