Yes, you have become what you mocked just a few months ago. You have become the enemy. You rival what you thought was belittling a POTUS only you’ve taken a step further. Take a bow and applaud yourself – PB/TK
Outlandish Trump Hysteria Mirrors Obamaphobia – Brendan O’Neill | February 23, 2017
How thin is the line between reason and delirium. Just a few years ago, Democrats and liberals were presenting themselves as paragons of level-headed politics in contrast to those cranky Obama bashers and birthers in the darker crannies of the worldwide web. Now, four weeks into the Trump presidency, they’ve become the thing they mocked; they’re giving febrile Obamaphobes a run for their money in the paranoia game.
It’s striking how closely the media and culture sets’ meltdown over Trump mirrors the rash reaction to Obama among some on the harder, tetchier right of politics. Just as some of those frazzled comment-section dwellers became convinced Obama was a Muslim Brotherhood mole, bent on laying waste to their way of life, so left-leaning Trump-fearers are buying into ever-crazier notions about Trump being a Putin-puppeteered Manchurian candidate come to destroy American values, and art, and decency: everything they hold dear. The panic and self-pity that once gripped unreasoned right-wingers now has a firm hold of many leftists.
The most striking similarity between the meltdown over Obama and the meltdown over Trump is the belief that the president is a stooge of dark foreign forces.
A favored conspiracy theory of the Obama-fearers was that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and was probably a Muslim to boot. Some went further, insisting he was a smart, smooth-talking front for those dastardly aspiring destroyers of the United States, the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Barack Hussein Obama: Muslim Brotherhood Mole?” headlines asked. (Always with the Hussein.) Some wondered if Obama was an MB “agent.” “The Muslim Brotherhood has taken over the White House,” bloggers feverishly claimed.
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