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And when President Obama tried to take credit for
the current economic boom — "When you hear how
great the economy's doing right now, let's just
remember when this recovery started" — you could
practically hear the heads exploding across Trump
Country. Yes, it's true that the economy recovered
after the Great Recession. What Trump supporters
know but people who rarely consume conservative
media content likely don't, is that the economic
recovery under Barack Obama was the slowest
since World War II.
Obama's recovery was so awful that in August of
2011— two years after the $1 trillion stimulus was
passed-the economy added zero jobs.
What makes the Obama experience so madden-
ing isn't his behavior, or his questionable claims
that's just politics. It's the self-righteousness of it all,
the suggestion that the U.S. under Obama was
divided, not between liberals and conservatives, but
rather "people who agreed with Obama and his
allies," and "bad people." "Bad" as in "confused,"
"bitter," "clinging to guns and religion," "deplorable."
The return of Barack Obama to the national stage
will remind many people who chose a problematic
presidential candidate like Donald Trump why they
made that choice to begin with. Viewing Donald
Trump in a political vacuum, it seems almost impos-
sible to imagine how he was ever elected. But com-
pare him to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and
you don't have to have a #MAGA hat on to see how
appealing he becomes.
How did America get Trump? Eight years of sanc-
timony and elitism, along with hostility toward the
basic cultural values of a significant part of the coun-
try -- and the promise that Hillary Clinton would bring
even more of that.
How do you get Trump for four more years? See
above."
Gene Suppell
Editor & Publisher
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