Obama’s Chicago Eyesore

David S. D’Amato nails it in his latest Counterpunch piece:

“The outright horror of Donald Trump, and it is truly horrible, is an effect of decline and dissipation, not their cause. This is where a bloated, corrupt, and profoundly destructive imperial system lands a country and people. We have allowed our rulers to govern by permanent emergency for decades, shredding the Bill of Rights and violating international law with impunity. When we celebrate the Obama Center, we celebrate our own gullibility and lack of political power. We celebrate just those things that led us to this point in our history.”

Trump is not an aberration but a symptom of an American two-party system tilted toward corporations and political elites - Clinton, Bush, and Biden to Newsom and others - as last week’s grand opening “Obamagasm” suggests. Given that reality, why should U.S. voters expect anything better in 2028?

D’Amato explains,

“It is clear that our failure to contest Obama’s lawless and authoritarian practices on substantive grounds—our total inability to properly oppose his kill lists, ramped-up deportations, and unconstitutional mass surveillance—further entrenched a political culture of mindless reality TV, in which Trump could inherit and intensify these authoritarian apparatuses without real pushback.”