Of all the Democratic speakers, nobody gets under the skin of Donald Trump like Barack Obama
’s ageless daystar of liberty, entirely silver headed now but still recognisable as the skinny kid with the funny name who entranced his party at a convention speech all of twenty summers ago and who drifts through middle age now as the most potent’s appearance at a Democratic rally on Thursday night was, for Democrats, at once a wistful look back at a not-so-distant past that seemed infinite with hope and possibility and a more anxious wish that his return to the campaign stumps could giveIt...
Three days after the election, the Princeton historian Julian E Zelizer was among of group of colleagues who gathered at his university for a conference on the presidential legacy of Obama. “We were discussing how quickly his programs would be dismantled, now that Republicans controlled the White House and Congress. Donald J Trump’s stunning election appeared to many to be a direct repudiation of the essential meaning of 2008, when the country elected its first African-American president. Mr Obama was a great policymaker, but not a great party builder. In the face of Republican intransigence, he still managed to get things done.
“The two-hour speeches word salad. It’s like Fidel Castro- going on and on. The constant attempt to sell you stuff. Gold sneakers and a gold watch! A bible! He got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke.” Few American public figures have told that story like Obama. He got hearts racing and brows sweating and then he slowed it down and took the crowd back to his childhood. And they watched this man and at some point they must have wondered at the eight years since- the book writing and Netflix shows and the exceptional, almost unavoidable wealth his power of persona has generated and may have questioned if he had fully delivered on the promise he had projected in the blinding months before 2008.
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