Jonathan Rosenblum
Mishpacha Magazine, Nov. 12, 2024
“Democrats continued to address minority groups as if they owed the party their allegiance.”
Nowhere will the end of the Obama era be more welcome than in Israel
Residents of D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood will likely be seeing less of Barack Obama, as his third term draws to an ignominious close and the prospect of a fourth term has been decisively rejected. The gatherings of former Obama administration officials, now ensconced in the Biden administration, at the Obama mansion are a relic of the past.
David Garrow, Pulitzer-prize winning biographer and the author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, told the Daily Mail that Obama’s current political relevance is at the level of Bill Clinton, the previous supernova of the Democratic Party. And what is that level? When Bill dropped into a McDonald’s recently, while on the campaign trail, the excited cashier asked him, “Are you Joe Biden?”
The Obamas campaigned hard for Kamala. She was, after all, the perfect frontwoman, through which Barack could have continued to pull the puppet strings — just as he had for an enfeebled Joe Biden. She articulated no policy ideas of her own — beyond the ridiculous call for price controls on groceries — and would have been fully content to follow his lead. But all Barack and Michelle’s hectoring of black brothers to overcome their misogyny and vote for Kamala does not appear to have moved the needle even a smidgen.
OBAMA ORGANIZED the present-day Democratic Party around a Faustian bargain between college-educated elites and an alphabet soup of identity groups. The latter would provide the votes needed for the elites to pursue their pet projects — a radical climate agenda, biological men in women’s bathrooms and competing in women’s sports, open borders — and, in return, the billionaire class would take care of them. … [To read the full article, click here]