Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“As various leaders call for resistance against Trump’s march to dictatorship, one prophetic voice has been missing in action. Barack Obama, before he was president, was a professor of constitutional law. He understands the stakes better than anyone. He also knows how to give a powerful and inspiring speech. … Obama made the catastrophic decision to bring in the Robert Rubin/Bill Clinton team of advisers to address the financial collapse that their policies had caused. Thus Obama squandered the opportunity to turn away from the neoliberalism that was destroying living standards and energizing the right. The hope of a second New Deal was stillborn. In contrast to the audacity of his presidential campaign and his rhetoric, Obama turned out to be characterologically cautious, transactional, and incremental.” [editor’s note: I think you misspelled “pathetic” – SAT] (06/21/25)