OPINION:
The former president Barack Obama, at a private fundraiser in New Jersey, said Democrats ought to do “less navel-gazing,” “less whining,” less rolling into “fetal positions” and more toughening up, more “courage,” more fight, fight, fight.
This, from the guy who sped up the Democrat Party’s decline into Marxism.
The problem with the Democrat Party isn’t so much its members’ unwillingness to engage as its members’ quicktime turn toward socialism, then Marxism, then communism. And Obama had much to do with that turn. He was king of the divide; arrogant conquerer of American foundations. And he bragged about it. He bragged about his hope to change the foundation of the nation. Tne problem with the Democrat Party is its members have listened too much to Obama already.
“Let us transform this nation,” he said in 2007.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” he said in 2008.
Hope. Change. Those were Obama’s buzzwords — his core campaign promises. Only the astute asked, “What change?” As for the Democrats, they were too busy feeling thrills going up their legs to see the sheer nothingness of Obama’s campaign.
For eight years, Democrats under Obama then ran roughshod over the Constitution, preferring pens and phones to the hard and accountable and transparent work of legislating. Obama weaponized his Justice Department. Obama divided the nation into smaller segments of skin color, then turned those segments against each other. Obama set the stage for mass demonstrations against police. Obama went after the free market — the “fat capitalists,” as he called them. Obama hailed socialism under the banner of “you didn’t build that.” Obama, the ultimate anti-American president of America, began his presidency with apology tours to overseas governments and finished his presidency with a legacy that was forged almost entirely by fawners in the media.
And now he has words of wisdom for the Democrat Party he helped destroy by pushing ever left, ever left, ever left?
He said, to those frustrated by President Donald Trump’s leadership, they need to “stand up” more, CNN reported.
“I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said.
“You know, don’t tell me you’re a Democrat, but you’re kind of disappointed right now, so you’re not doing anything. No, now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something,” Obama said.
“Don’t say that you care deeply about free speech and then you’re quiet. No, you stand up for free speech when it’s hard. When somebody says something that you don’t like, but you still say, ’You know what, that person has the right to speak.’ … What’s needed now is courage,” Obama said.
It’s laughable to hear any Democrat talk about free speech, given that whole “kick ’em off social media” campaign they had going for years under COVID, aimed at silencing anyone who dared disagree with the government’s preferred narratives. It’s a campaign they would have continued to infinity and beyond, save for Elon Musk’s buyout of their favorite platform, Twitter-turned-X.
But to hear Obama especially talk about free speech and freedom and standing up rights and so forth and so on and so forth, as if he understands freedom and principle and the power of the people and the Constitution, well, that’s a new level of laughable.
It’s like taking advice from the wolf on how to repair the henhouse.
“If we do our jobs over the next years and a half, then I think we will rebuild momentum and we will position ourselves to get this country moving in the direction it should,” Obama said.
He means backward.
He means away from the America First agenda of Trump and back to the America Last agenda of the Obama years.
Once again, Obama is calling for the tearing apart of the foundations of America.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on X @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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