Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign, Offers to Be Sounding Board

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9. Obama did not cause the racism. It has been here long before 1776

But that is no excuse for him taking a laissez-faire attitude. We are losing our country, and Obama still has enormous clout on our political stage. It is unforgivable for him to stand by doing nothing, using the excuse that our traditions and norms require ex-Presidents to stay out of the political arena. Trump is sending armies into all 50 states. He is kidnapping people and killing people indiscriminately, and threatening to impose martial law to leave himself in power as long as he lives.

If this is not enough for Obama to get off the sidelines, we are really and truly screwed.

Now, I hope that outreach to Mamdani was the beginning of an effort to pull together the points of maximum energy on the progressive side, then I applaud this without reservation. My fear is that, instead, what Obama refers to as a "sounding board" is actually advice to Mamdani to stop talking about bold ideas and just lay low, and all this bad stuff will just pass.

That is basically, how Obama operated his 8 years. And we can hold him accountable for that. Sure, there was no drama. But there were the foundations of the fascism we are suffering today. "No drama Obama" is not what we need today and I hope that isn't what he is preaching to Mamdani.