Wrong target
Oh honestly.
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1019297409925636098
Talk about tribalism, or groupthink, or living in a bubble, or whatever you want to call it. It takes some heavy duty ignorance of Obama not to realize that he has been saying this pretty much his whole life. It’s his theme. He annoyed colleagues at the Harvard Law Review when he was editor because he kept seeking out conservative contributions. It’s actually quite likely we’d be better off now if he’d been more of a street fighter for team slightly-left, but whether that’s true or not it’s absurd to claim he hasn’t urged listening to a wide range of opinion until just now.
But everything is Obama’s fault.
Well, except for the stuff that is Hilary’s fault, obviously…
But…but….but…Rob…didn’t you know? Obama is Hillary’s fault!
Iknklast, I find it so hard keeping track sometimes. I guess being a white women is worse than being a black man in the eyes of some. Then again Hillary is an old cis white women surely, so I guess she is evil incarnate.
Yes, if only Obama had said something like that, then maybe Cathy Young and her ilk would have voted for Hillary.
But he never, ever did say anything like that, at all, ever, so they’re totally off the hook for what’s happening now.
#ThanksObama
He’s said things to this effect on a national platform every year (maybe even every month) since his convention speech in 2004, which was famous for castigating extremists on the right *and* the left for myopic exclusion and tribalism. It was nearly the entirety of the substantive message that turned him from an obscure state senator into a US senator on the fast track to the Presidency. Only someone who willfully ignored essentially every public statement the man has ever made in his life could say something as piddlingly naive as the quoted tweet.
These people. Jesus.
Cathy Young is the left’s gift to the right: she’s so contrarian in her leftism that her entire career gets spent tearing down the left, any left, all the time, so that there isn’t any spleen remaining for the right. They’re safely beyond her criticism cap.
Wait, Cathy Young is supposed to be on the left?
Seriously, I had no idea.
@skeletor, I seriously doubt Cathy young, or very many of her “ilk”, for that matter, voted for Trump.
And no, I do not consider her to be of the left, either.