Obama's eternal political algorithm

Ace of Spades on Obama's recent interview with National Public Radio:

Obama's eternal political algorithm runs like this: He ruthlessly exploits the fears and paranoias that animate his own voters -- Muslim "backlash," cop shootings which occur something like one in one thousand arrests, global warming that hasn't been happening for 17 years, mass shootings in an age when gun violence and murder is down substantially.

But when someone else talks about issues -- terrorism, Iran, declining wages, society becoming more hostile to conventional religion, the uncontrolled border and the implications of that for our economy, security, and political equilibrium -- those are just some phantasmal "fears" which are being cynically "exploited" by crafty politicians who know how to stoke the lizard brain bigotries of dumb people.

He is ghastly. He is also stupid and unselfreflecting, because I bet you what I've said has never even occurred to him as something he needs to justify to himself.

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