Posted on 11/25/2016 7:30:06 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
Obama Plans to Rule America Outside the White House…and he might get away with it.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Barack Obama has two faces. After Trump’s victory and Hillary’s defeat, the public Obama has been gracious and diplomatic. His lectures to Trump, directly and indirectly, are couched in praise. He echoed the feeling of millions on both sides when he said, "We are now all rooting for his success”.
That’s a lie. Or rather a disguise.
Obama and his aides had, in one insider narrative, decided to don the “mask of decorum”. The contempt for Trump still seeps through the mask. And the mask hides Obama’s next big move.
President Obama is over. He knows that. There are still some things that he can do before he leaves office, but everything except the most destructive, can be undone by his successor. The next phase of his campaign will not be fought from the White House. It will be fought against the White House .
The other Obama is emerging in conference calls with his supporters. “One of the challenges that I’ve discovered being president is I’d like to be organizer-in-chief, but it’s hard,” he said in one call.
Obama can no longer be commander-in-chief. Instead he’s plotting to become organizer-in-chief.
The infrastructure for the organization was put into place long before anyone thought that Hillary might lose. Organizing for Action gave him his own organizing hub. If Hillary had won, it would have been a pressure group. Now that Trump won, it’s an axis to build a personal counterrevolution around.
In his post-election conference call with his OFA troops, Obama told them, “I’m giving you like a week and a half to get over it”. Then it would be time to “move forward not only to protect what we’ve accomplished, but also to see this as an opportunity”. What opportunity could there be in Trump’s win?
Obama is now the only major national figure still standing among the Democrats. After Hillary’s defeat, he’s worked hard to attribute the loss to her shortcomings, not his policies and decisions. That’s not just to soothe his ego. If he’s going to dictate the future of his party, he can’t afford to be blamed for its latest disaster. And Obama is still determined to dictate the future of the party and the country.
In conventional politics, Obama is done. There’s no way back into the White House. And Hillary’s fate won’t leave much enthusiasm for nominating the uncharismatic spouse of a charismatic ex-president.
But Obama is not a conventional politician. He’s an organizer and a campaigner at the vanguard of a radical movement that seeks to control traditional institutions, but doesn’t feel bound by them. Unlike Bill Clinton, his plans don’t begin and end with the White House. As an organizer, Obama is equipped to build bases of power outside traditional institutions. And that is exactly what he is doing.
The demoralization of the Democrats is, as Obama put it, an opportunity. Social chaos is a time for the left to overthrow and undermine traditional institutions. Fear, anger and despair are radicalizing. The left has always operated by throwing bombs and then profiting from the fallout. That’s Obama’s agenda. Having wrecked the country and the Democrats, he sees that not as a setback, but as an opportunity.
“The network that you represent, you're perfectly poised to do that,” Obama told his OFAers. “In other words, now is the time for some organizing.”
While the leftist rioters in the streets are garnering the most attention, the real threat comes from the network of staffers dubbed Obama Anonymous which are beginning to organize and coordinate. OFA is Obama’s equivalent of the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons built Clintonworld around staffers, but its goal was harvesting money. Obama Inc. is being built around organizing and activism. Like Clintonworld, it will be a network encompassing a variety of political and non-profit institutions. Unlike them, it will be much less focused on directing money to its bosses in preparation for an election. Instead it will function like a traditional leftist movement, merging influence operations with crowdsourced mobilization.
OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild than the Clinton Foundation ever was. The Clintons hoped to ride back to power on a giant wave of money. Obama is taking a much more radical course.
The staffers exiting government are being wired into Obama Inc. whether or not they take jobs directly working for him. The OFA alumni are building networks across organizations while taking their marching orders from him. They expect Obama to lead them back from the wilderness and into the halls of power.
He’s told them so.
“I'm going to be constrained in what I do with all of you until I am again a private citizen. But that's not so far off,” he assured them. “I'm still fired up and I'm still ready to go.” His next comments promised that radical political change could and would take place.
Obama isn’t going to retire. He’s not going to spend years puttering around with a presidential library. He’s not even going to set up a Clintonesque slush fund and try to make his wife president. Instead he wants to force radical change from outside the White House by using the network he’s built.
While the public Obama wraps up business at the White House, concludes yet another world tour, alternating between praising Trump and offering him condescending advice, the other Obama is preparing to deploy a network that will dominate the Dems and set the agenda on the left.
If Obama succeeds, then he will get another shot at picking his White House successor. But beyond that, he’s been handed the keys to an organizing machine that will allow him to set even more of the agenda for his party than ever before. And he has a cause that is sending the party reeling back into his arms.
Obama believes that he can rule America from outside the White House. And he might be right.
Political norms and old rules have been falling faster than leaves in an autumn wind. If Obama sets out to move the center of power outside the White House and into an organization that will control national politics through the left, it would be dangerous to assume that he can’t and won’t succeed.
The Democrats didn’t respond to their defeat, one of a sequence, by trying to move to the center. Instead there is every sign that they are moving further to the left. Keith Ellison, a radical leftist with an anti-Semitic past, is tipped to head the DNC. Schumer still has the Senate, but Elizabeth Warren may have it before too long. Combine that with Obama as the president-in-exile and the Dems will be more radical and extremist than they were even when Obama was sitting in the White House.
The Democrats are ceasing to be a national party. Instead they are becoming a nationalizing party. They are losing their presence in much of the country, from state legislature to state legislature, and becoming the party of major cities and the national government. Their agenda is to move power from local areas to central ones, from the villages and the suburbs to the cities, from states to D.C. and from locally elected legislators in D.C. to the satellite bureaucracies of the Federal government.
Obama sees Hillary’s defeat as an opportunity to burn the Dem’s last bridges with the larger country and its “bitter clingers”, to double down on nationalizing power and to define the political narrative around the agendas of urban elites. The left crippled the Democrats. Now it wants to utterly consume them.
Barack Obama is still being vague and coy about his plans. He informs reporters that he will attack Trump when it comes to "core questions about our values and ideals". But the “faithful” are getting much clearer signals. “You’re going to see me early next year, and we’re going to be in a position where we can start cooking up all kinds of great stuff to do.”
The election was a catastrophic disaster for the Democrats, but it opened all sorts of doors for Obama.
Hillary’s defeat removes the Clintons, his only real internal rivals, off the stage. Trump’s triumph in working class areas cuts more ties with the traditional Dem base and transforms it into a party of left-wing urban elites and their radical agendas. And the popular figures on the left, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Keith Ellison, lack his national stature, speaking skills and organization.
Obama will move to consolidate the left. And then the Democrats. He will function as a president-in-exile heading up the opposition to Trump. When it comes to verbally challenging Trump, Obama will be more likely to be interviewed and heard than Ellison or Schumer. And his people will coordinate responses across the left from street level organizing to think tanks and policy moves.
Some of it is ego.
Obama believes that he can find the key to beating Trump in the traditional tactics of the left. But most is ideology and power. Obama is not done transforming America. And America isn’t done with him yet.
Law and order Trump will use all legal means to thwart “community organizing” that leads to lawless behavior.
Not sure how much room to operate Obama will have other than making phone calls and lobbying for the globalists.
The rioting will be brought to heal in a hurry.
Obama helped form, he supported and his DOJ directed groups like #BLM. They were his red guards.
He could remain above the fray, while his organized political troops created chaos on the streets and campuses of America.
He will not give this up.
Without access to the US Treasury, Obama has no power.
People don't like to be lectured to or scolded. And that is all Obama knows how to speak to people.
With many billions of taxpayer dollars stashed away in charitable corporations, left wing mega foundations, and various other corporations, the organizer in chief is well prepared to legislate, riot, and sue.
Monitor his communications and the first violent rally, lock him up. Soros too.
Hard for the Current Occupant to rule ANYTHING, once he leaves office. No longer with access to the levers of power, he becomes a useless marionette with the strings cut.
The power that put him there, though, is still alive and well, and encouraging little hissy fits among the minions of converted sheeple and captive media.
Not enough in itself to topple Trump anytime soon, but soon, perhaps more quickly than anyone now realizes, there will be found a new “Champion of the People”, perhaps of Hispanic background, that will be groomed and brought to the forefront, much like the Current Occupant was rushed into the public consciousness in 2004, resulting to his elevation to the Presidency in 2008.
Keep your eye on the domestic Castro brothers - Julian and Joaquin Castro of Texas. Not just a “two-fer”, but multiple tokens on so many levels.
Opposition research, to your posts.
Barry needs to understand something.
I’ll take a page from the past to explain it.
“Those are our COP cars”.
Once Trump gets rid of Soros it’s going to be springtime in the US again.
I posted this scenario a few weeks ago.
Obama will be term-limited out of the White House in 2016, but he has already hinted that he will "stay in Washington DC" after his presidency is over.What he will do is "organize" his civilian force that will have been weaponized by the time he leaves office.
Obama will arise as a leader in exile with his own loyal military, and he will challenge the incoming President with the threat of real force at some point early in the next administration.
Thinking about it further, it explains all the weapons, ammo, body vests, and armor requests from the BLM, USDA, IRS, Social Security, NOAA, and other bureaucratic outfits not expected to be heavily armored.
When Obama is ready, he will make a loyalty call to anyone from these government jobs who supports him, and will mobilize a militarized insurgency within all 50 states. He doesn't need a centralized army, he will have enough force in each state that matters, enough to scare.
Most recently militarized...
-PJ
Well, all I have to say to “Obama Plans to Rule America From Outside the White House” is this: Good luck with that, you little cockroach.
RICO
“Obama believes that he can rule America from outside the White House. And he might be right.”
Obama will be shorn of his delusion by any value of one — Trump’s first press conference on Obama’s efforts, the first week of Trump’s presidency, the first point of contact between the Trump administration and Obama’s machinations, etc. Obama’s presidency and his delusion reminds me of Twain’s example of the rooster crowing early in the morning making him think he is responsible for the sun rising.
Obama has been in over his head for years -- and he knows it. Go back and look at his track record. The guy hasn't accomplished anything of substance since the Republicans took control of Congress away from the Democrats in 2010.
He can become the nation's "organizer-in-chief" all he wants. Nobody of any substance is going to listen to him.
That raises a good question, will Trump need to demilitarize these agencies, or just get his own people in place ASAP? He won’t be able to get rid of many entrenched bureaucrats who could undermine his agenda.
Bull.
Why would Trump only Use RICO if Obama makes himself a stink?
The rise of Trump should embolden us to resist the Left using whatever force is necessary. No more fake guilt, kowtowing, or otherwise appeasing these children. Let them scream racism. Water off a duck’s back at this point. We are no longer at their mercy. We should act as such. Hussain is finished. Mooch will never be considered. The Dems will simply look for a celebrity as name recognition alone no longer cuts it.
This is a very good analysis of Obama. I could see some of it, but this article focused my thinking.
The big question is how much support will Obama get from the establishment media? Likely, quite a lot. That is the big question we have to find an answer to.
How do you deal with a media that is overwhelmingly opposed to the very idea of the Constitution, while keeping the First Amendment?
Perhaps some thing can be done with broadcast licenses. Defund NPR and PBS. Use the Ad Council to destroy itself.
Creative ideas needed.
Obama is going to be shown for the fool he is.
You can skew the numbers, falsify the reports but working people can easily see that prosperity has been very elusive for the common man while big government and crony banker, corporatists manipultators have stolen from every place they can having there pockets lined with blood money.
History is a cruel mistress.
Obama road a false wave under false pretenses. He has only one way to go, down.
I am more afraid that the left will shoot him and make him a martyr of the revolution. And no I really don’t think that. Is likely either.
Exactly right. The amount they collect from fed gov is staggering. Our own taxes pay for our destruction.
Trump also has to figure out how to nullify Soros. All of his money is going to greatly outlast him through many "foundations" he must have set up. An enemy like that always sets up a succession plan.
Lastly, Trump should spend a lot of energy behind the scenes figuring out how to pull the deeply burrowed leftist tentacles and roots out of the government. That would be a HUGE WIN for America.
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