Barack Obama sees himself as a historic transformational figure sent to fundamentally change a nation with a paternalistic history, a “fatally flawed” Constitution, racist culture, and economic system that needed revision — by him.
That’s why it must have been a shock when Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to a billionaire businessman whose worldview opposed everything Barack stood for during his eight years, “waking up every morning in a house … built by slaves.”
Imagine thinking so highly of yourself and then having your successor be so widely rejected.
By choosing Donald Trump, the American public rejected Obama’s vision, which likely bruised his fragile ego. For Obama, Trump’s victory probably felt like a complete rejection of everything the community organizer had achieved during his two terms of trying to transform a constitutional republic into a Marxist state.
Now, nine years after that harsh blow of rejection, America learns that before and after the 2016 election, the world’s most thin-skinned egomaniac and his team of malevolent enforcers believed it was in the country’s best interest to protect their distorted view of democracy by making false accusations against the newly elected president.
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