The End of the Obama Presidency — Finally

David Garrow, Pulitzer-prize winning biographer and the author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, told the Daily Mail that Obama’s current political relevance is at the level of Bill Clinton, the previous supernova of the Democratic Party. And what is that level? When Bill dropped into a McDonald’s recently, while on the campaign trail, the excited cashier asked him, “Are you Joe Biden?”

The Obamas campaigned hard for Kamala. She was, after all, the perfect frontwoman, through which Barack could have continued to pull the puppet strings — just as he had for an enfeebled Joe Biden. She articulated no policy ideas of her own — beyond the ridiculous call for price controls on groceries — and would have been fully content to follow his lead. But all Barack and Michelle’s hectoring of black brothers to overcome their misogyny and vote for Kamala does not appear to have moved the needle even a smidgen.
OBAMA ORGANIZED the present-day Democratic Party around a Faustian bargain between college-educated elites and an alphabet soup of identity groups. The latter would provide the votes needed for the elites to pursue their pet projects — a radical climate agenda, biological men in women’s bathrooms and competing in women’s sports, open borders — and, in return, the billionaire class would take care of them.

That balkanization of America into identity groups — e.g., POC, MENA, LGBTQ — gave rise to DEI regimes in the universities and major corporations to which a majority of Americans are ever more hostile, including blacks and Hispanics, who have discovered that the admission of middle- and upper middle-class members of their groups into elite universities and professions, based on DEI criteria, has done little to elevate their group as a whole or improve their economic prospects.

And the ubiquitous imposition of racial quotas, in the name of equity, has stoked resentment between favored and disfavored groups. Americans hoped that Obama’s election would finally begin to heal the wounds of slavery and racism. But at the end of his eight years in office, both blacks and whites consistently viewed race relations as having regressed.