Why MAGA Cult is Obsessed with Obama
Barack Obama has not been president for ten years. And yet his name dominates political arguments more than any other former president. More than Bush. More than Clinton.
That’s not random. There are four distinct psychological reasons the MAGA cult cannot let Obama go. And none of them are actually about politics.
1. The Psychological Wage of Whiteness
In 1935, sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois published his landmark study of American labor, Black Reconstruction in America. His finding was specific and uncomfortable. Even the poorest white Americans — people with no money, no power, and no…
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