Barack Obama has figured out why Hispanics moved towards Donald Trump and away from the Democratic Party in the 2020 election. It wasn’t the strong economy and new economic opportunities they were enjoying. It wasn’t a desire to avoid more pointless and destructive COVID lockdowns. It wasn’t a desire to stop the endless wars. And it wasn’t the Democrat’s embrace of socialism, the failed economic system that many Hispanics came to America to escape.
Nope. It had nothing to do with any of that. Have you figured out the real reason? Can you guess? Bigotry! According to Obama, the reason so many Hispanics switched to Trump is because they are awful bigots disguised as evangelicals. Just like those mouth-breathing rubes in fly-over country. In fact, according to The One, Latinos are so homophobic that they were willing to ignore Trump’s own racism against them just because they share The Donald’s bigotry against gays and non-Christians. It was the enemy of my enemy, taken to the extreme, apparently. Never mind that gay marriage and abortion weren’t even big issues for Trump. Or that Trump appointed the first openly gay member to his cabinet. Obama never let facts get in the way of his demonization of conservatives before. Why start now?
And this is why the leftstream media still loves Obama. He says all the things about conservatives that they believe deep down inside. Obama is a master of setting up straw-man arguments he can easily refute. He routinely denigrates positions that conservatives don’t actually hold. And then casually identifies the “real” reasons behind the way we think. Ignorance, racism, sexism, homophobia. To Obama and his media acolytes, these moral and intellectual short-comings explain everything you need to know about bitter-clinger conservatives.
Of course, just name-calling their common enemies is not enough to deify Obama to the press. The smug, condescending manner in which he delivers his barbs is the icing on the cake. Obama always cloaks his trash-talking in measured tones and flowery language. Democrats love to think of themselves as the party of science and reason. A sense of intellectual and moral superiority is in fact crucial to the liberal psyche. So the mediocre bullshit artist who can give an air of gravitas to playground insults is their sage.