"Elizabeth Warren says Obama doesn't understand 'lived experience of most Americans.'"

[JHan]

73. let's not leave it there hanging..

How do voters come to that conclusion, and actually vote for a man saying he is going to cut taxes on the wealthy?

How do they arrive at the conclusion that any republican could be the answer to their problems when it is demonstrably false that anything we had on the platform last year, or anything we've been pushing for over the past couple years, was designed to help the wealthy.

This is mythmaking.

The story there is how successful republicans have been in shaping narratives that a man who tells voters he is going to cut taxes and deregulate is seen as a "man of the people". The story there is the danger of populism.

and yeah I can also blame democrats for not creating better memes to counter it, but that doesn't change the fact that view is false.

And you cannot assess Obama's presidency without noting the obstruction. This is not excuse making, it's pointing out the degraded state of politics in Washington which was never the sole fault of the President. Did Obama err in judgement at times? Yes of course he did, but to say he is not connected or always had a giant blind spot to those who suffered the most in his presidency is an unfair attack on his value systems as a politician. Elizabeth should give Obama's final address another read, and pay attention closely to what he pointed out we need to get a handle on if we want to see less Trumps in the future.