A good chunk of the elite political world built well-financed networks and careers boosting Obama as victim, so they can't concede he had power and was a bad leader. That's why they mocked the economic anxiety narrative, because it implicated their own institutions.
https://twitter.com/jeffspross/status/1371545082101444618
It's incredibly obvious that economic anxiety fostered by decades of bad policy - including Obama's mishandling of the financial crisis - enabled Trump. It's beyond debate. But institutional networks on the center-left expunged those who made these points.
https://twitter.com/jeffspross/status/1371545082101444618
A lot of the anger at Substack types - @mtaibbi and @ggreenwald - is a holdover from their skepticism towards Obama's financial and national security policies. They didn't kowtow to liberal pieties during the Obama era, and they are hated for it.
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1371546925644853250
This is just 60s Marcuse/Mills/Galbraith consumer inflected counter-culture, in concentrated form. The idea is that people can't be trusted so decentralizing power leads to bigotry and exploitation. Instead, centralize, build an HR dept and impose values.
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1371547383440494594
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