When Trump wins it all again in 2020, this sort of crap will be why.
You thought it was going to be about Hillary Clinton, didn’t you?
Obama was about the same as George W. Bush — better in some areas, worse in many others. It’s only team fealty and the Warm FuzzyTM from 2008’s win that explains this level of worship.
I have no allegiance to any team, especially not a wannabe-granny-starvin’ drone-bombing war criminal like Obama, so this stuff just is puzzling to me. We live in completely different, irreconcilable realities, McEwan and I.
For people like McEwan, it’s about style over substance, elegance over accomplishment. Obama is polished. He’s smooth. He’s cool. And that’s primarily what gets the liberal hearts all aflutter these days (hence part of the disdain for Sanders: he was not cool, not collected).
The progressive movement in this country is not about progress, but rather a protection racket of economic and intellectual status. That’s never been more obvious than right now.