“...agree that Obama is a historical titan whose influence will echo across the rest of the century and beyond.”
So was Lenin. Big deal.
Obama isn’t smart, and his actual program comes from the extreme leftists behind him (Ayers and the gang, still frequent visitors at the WH). But he is incredibly ruthless and is fueled by an insane level of racial animosity which I think has enabled him to ignore any reasonable limits on his behavior. He sees these programs as being destructive of the object of his hatred, the West as personified by America, and he goes to bed every night gloating about having put another nail in its coffin. He runs on hate.