Liberal intellectuals love Barack Obama. He is smart, good-looking, and has great sartorial skills (that pants crease!), and talks exactly how they want to themselves.
As Biden said, he's the "dream."
Obama is the reflection of the elite in the mirror, only better, because he has skin darker than their own.
Republicans haven’t lived up to the expectations that Obama has for them, Obama tells Colbert:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 6, 2026
“I’m worried about the Republican party."
"I'd love a Republican Party that...believed in rule of law...and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses."
“There has been a… pic.twitter.com/MnT4ff6gMW
Republicans haven’t lived up to the expectations that Obama has for them, Obama tells Colbert:
“I’m worried about the Republican party."
"I'd love a Republican Party that...believed in rule of law...and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses."
“There has been a Republican party like that in the past, and I want to see that return."
Obama's power over the elite has everything to do with the class image he projects. He is smooth, says exactly what they want to hear, and the fact that almost none of it is true is no barrier to his influence over them; it is a bonus, because he strokes their desire for things that are in themselves impossible, or too messy to consider without self-deception.
They love Obama because they love being gaslit.
Oh https://t.co/afqZsxn0jH pic.twitter.com/oeBlrqeW9a
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 6, 2026
Obama can sit down with an interlocutor and say the most outrageously untrue things, and the crowd goes wild. Obamacare was sold as a lie, and its architects even admitted as such, joking about how it was too complicated for the ordinary person to figure out.
According to the New Yorker, the real victim of Trump being shot in head and nearly assassinated was Barack Obama. Trump was merely “grazed by a bullet,” but the real threat was to…Barack Obama. pic.twitter.com/1ii2VGu5Qc
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 6, 2026
As long as Obama could sing his cool siren song to the liberals, it was OK. Ben Rhodes joking about how he could gaslight reporters and lie because they don't know anything? Liberals ate it up, because they could get what they wanted without having to deal with messy things like truth.
Private lawyers threatening the Attorney General of the United States with state disbarment for their lawful conduct in federal office is completely intolerable
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2026
The state bars must be brought to heel https://t.co/qhF7I18nyN
That's why Obama has remained the top man in the Democratic Party in a way no prior president has. We are ten years out, and Obama is still the guy the Democrats trot out to soothe the liberals as the party becomes ever more abusive and extreme.
Obama abused his power in a way that would have made Nixon or Johnson blush. He orchestrated a multi-year hoax campaign against Donald Trump, helping create the hoaxes, setting in motion investigations that would plague Trump for over a decade, and splitting the country in two.
You mean like the transition you led to incoming President Trump?
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) May 7, 2026
The one in which you, Biden, Brennan, Comey and Clapper sandbagged Trump with false charges of collusion and then launched the bogus Steele dossier against Trump. Not to mention what you did to countless WH and… https://t.co/ySpsWISRGx
He abused his power against the press as no prior president in recent history has, and yet he lectures us about the dangers of the Republican Party.
Trump sues the media when they slander him; Obama sent the FBI.
In 2016, the AG's office subpoenaed me and other top Fox News executives after it convened a Grand Jury and Federal fishing expedition against Fox.
— Ken LaCorte (@KenLaCorte) May 6, 2026
They went through our emails, flew me across the country, and interrogated us under oath. My legal fees alone were over $100,000.… https://t.co/WFAKfhoxvo
In 2016, the AG's office subpoenaed me and other top Fox News executives after it convened a Grand Jury and Federal fishing expedition against Fox.
They went through our emails, flew me across the country, and interrogated us under oath. My legal fees alone were over $100,000.
After a year, they quietly dropped it. No charges. No apologies.
Obama called Eric Holder his "wing man," and he certainly was. He abused his power and set the bar for Biden's own AG, Merrick Garland, whose ethical standards would have made him eligible for a position in Putin's power circle.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, with knowledge and approval of Obama, ordered to SHUT DOWN the FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation.
— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) May 7, 2026
Obama wanted Hillary to win in 2016, not Donald Trump, so Obama’s Attorney General and Deputy AG ordered to clean Hillary Clinton up https://t.co/jJzRXKNIwE pic.twitter.com/pb0KsLDWf8
I think what is so attractive about the Obama aura is that it combines an air of class and respectability with a ruthlessness that most liberals would love to unleash in themselves. They can lecture us about norms and the rule of law as they send the brownshirts to round us up.
Obama secretly monitored the AP & confiscated months of documents. Obama secretly monitored Washington Journalist James Rosen?
— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) March 27, 2026
Obama tried to have NYT reporter James Risen thrown in jail.
Tell me more about how Trump is hurting the “free press” 🤡pic.twitter.com/3e9kEIgnDG
Ironically, Obama's time as the top dog in the Democratic Party is passing because the base of the Party no longer cares about maintaining an aura of class. Obama gave an aura of respectability to massive abuses of power. These days, you don't have to be clean and articulate and respectable; you can wear a Nazi tattoo.
@MallardBruce Did you complain when Obama surveilled James Rosen? I don't remember you doing so.https://t.co/aQcyzTfzst
— Paul Creegan (@creega21138) May 6, 2026
Older members of the cultural elite still love Obama because they want to see him when they look in the mirror.
According to the New Yorker, the real victim of Trump being shot in head and nearly assassinated was Barack Obama. Trump was merely “grazed by a bullet,” but the real threat was to…Barack Obama. pic.twitter.com/1ii2VGu5Qc
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 6, 2026
But Obama no longer reflects the aspirations of the new Democrats, who are gravitating to Mamdani, Platner, el-Sayid, and Hasan Piker. Obama is cozying up to Mamdani because he is smooth, but to the extent that an exchange of influence happens, it will be from Mamdani to Obama, and not the other way around.
The new generation of Democrats isn't so interested in gaslighting, which was Obama's superpower. They will tell you to your face that they want you dead.
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