Barack Obama won’t ever miss a chance to juxtapose himself with Donald Trump because the pious president who preached peace. In actuality, the intense political divide of proper v left started underneath Obama as he used divisive politics to separate the nation into “us” vs “them.”
Obama was the primary to label his political opponents as an “enemy,” as reported by the Washington Examiner. “Those extreme views were not in my White House,” Obama claimed in remarks to the Jefferson Society relating to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them. When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.”
(Obama’s typical middle-class yacht)
Financial woes had been blamed on the “top 1%,” a phrase that derived from Obama’s presidency following the 2008 monetary disaster. “The gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us has never been wider,” he acknowledged in 2011. He contrasted the struggles of “working families” with the “special interests” and “wealthy few” who benefited from tax loopholes and deregulation. “I believe in an America where opportunity is open to everyone—not just those at the top,” he preached throughout his first marketing campaign in opposition to Mitt Romney. The Obama Administration was touted because the defender of unusual “folks” who had been struggling because of the greed of the “wealthy few,” a category that Obama himself is inside.
“We don’t think government can solve all our problems, but we don’t think government is the source of all our problems—any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group we’re told to blame for our troubles,” Obama acknowledged throughout the 2012 Democratic Nationwide Conference the place he pushed for Obama Care. “Government” was the identical as marginalized teams just like the LGBTQ+ group and immigrants, Obama declared, and anybody who disagreed together with his insurance policies was appearing in a discriminatory method. Closed borders? Racist! Voting in opposition to paying into Obamacare? Racist greed directed at marginalized communities.
Legacy media ran his rhetoric 24/7 throughout each platform, and that rhetoric has continued as we speak into “progressive” ideology that aligns with socialist views. Donald Trump is actually not the primary nor the final president to take an “us” vs “them” stance. In distinction to Obama, Trump started his marketing campaign by portraying authorities as the issue—drain the swamp and fireplace the judges. Discover how there has not been a wave of violent riots within the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The “MAGA extremists” are vocal however not violent.
