Why the right thinks Barack Obama still controls the universe

President Donald Trump and his team spent weeks trying to kill the big harmful titles on their poorly managed the Jeffrey Epstein affair, and in doing so, they were unleashed on a very familiar target: former President Barack Obama.

The distraction of Obama (attempt)

The public has several times Talk about surveys They think the government and Trump cover evidence related to the alleged Epstein sex trafficking network. As a result, the Trump team has insisted that Obama was the brain of a complicated conspiracy to interfere in the elections, repeating long allegations in parallel with betrayal allegations and the threat of criminal trials.

Fox News, Trump’s most precious propaganda ally was on the case. The network covered the waves With an hour after an hour amplifying Obama’s Trump smear, desperately trying to drown the Epstein blanket. So far, there are few signs that the campaign works, but the right is to give everything.

Familiar field

Trying to weave a conspiracy theory around Obama is a well -used territory for the right – and for Trump’s team in particular. In 2020, many of these same people, led by Trump, tried to create A scandal linked to the Obama entitled “Obamagate”. Unlike his namesake, the infamous Watergate scandal, the Obamagate plot collapsed and a few months after all this sound and this fury, the public elected Joe Biden on Trump by an important margin.

Likewise, when Trump took office in 2017 for the first time, it was only a few weeks in that the right started to discuss The fact that the basic protests against Trump’s sectarian policies were a creation of Obama.

Trump clearly said he hates Obama. He always finds it very difficult to name the former president in total as “Barack Hussein Obama”, an attempt to invoke the sectarian fears of the roots of the Middle East of the name.

Millions watched in 2011 as Trump uncomfortable At his headquarters at the dinner of the correspondents of the White House while Obama was mercilessly made for his racist birther crusade. He was reported That the moment may have pushed Trump into the electoral arena, by his desire for revenge.

The roots of anti-object rage

Obama is the first black to be elected president of the United States. He first did it in 2008 against then-sen. John McCain of Arizona, a decorated military veteran and an icon of the conservative movement. Obama’s victory was an affront to the conservatives, who historically treated democratic presidents as usurper, but with Obama, the conservatives perceived it as more blatant because of its race.

The law, led by Trumpdoes not simply oppose the position of Obama as a Democrat –They supported The fact that the first non -white person to occupy the presidential office was there illegally and was not even qualified for the position. Trump said on several occasions that he had investigators to seek Obama’s birth certificate.

During an appearance on “The View”, Trump boasted His alleged team visit to Hawaii, Obama’s birthplace. “They can’t believe what they find,” said Trump.

No one found anything, of course, because the conservatives were lying.

Four years later, Obama further angered the right by winning a second term, this time against describe Mitt Romney “seriously conservative”.

At this stage, a black man had twice defeated the best efforts of the Republican Party and the right -wing media rubbing machine.

Unleashed gop

While the Republicans have always favored a conspiratorial cultureObama’s double victory seems to have been the party’s turn point. Cracked like Alex Jones conspiracy theorist has become common in conservative circles, and personalities like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who continued at length about the alleged Jewish spatial lasers, were elected at the Congress.

And of course, the Birtser-in-Chief himselfDonald Trump, has become the party leader and spent the last decade shaping conservatism in his twisted image. At the heart of that, he hates Obama.

Trump’s racismWorking in tandem with a conspiratorial thought is now the norm of the party. It is not surprising that his team reached the familiar by trying to get rid of the stench and other sexual crimes.

Obama has not been president for more than 3,100 days. But Trump and his team believe that the former president is still in the shadows, hiding and controlling global events. And when things go wrong for Trump, three words will always be on his lips: Barack Hussein Obama.