Bad policy is bad policy. Yet is was predictable to the discerning in 2008 that this Administration would behave as disastrously as it has. The real problem is that Gruber is more right about the American voter than most will dare to admit. These political decisions and policies are not happening in a cultural vacuum.
As you point out, to the discerning, just beneath the threshold yet still quite visible, was all the signs and markers that Obama was completely untested and unfit for the most demanding job in the world. Yet, the corrupt MSM desperately wanted to believe the fairy tail and did everything in their power to help Obama to sell the idealogical fairy tail they so desperately wanted themselves to hold to.
In the end, Obama’s fairy tail was ultimately built to exactly reflect the Liberal’s complete identity of themselves, i.e., compassionate, race-free, partisan-free, wanting to spread the wealth in the name of social justice, etc. that Liberals and the MSM were heavily personally invested in the Obama fairy tail.
In the end, those of us not lead through our emotions saw something far starker. We saw a person with absolutely no experience, no real previous job, a racist, and a Marxist with a foreign background that was not borne out of an American way of life upbringing.