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.
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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
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