I thought more about it, and I think you should consider developing this character much more, and make it into a full book.
All of what you laid out here is highly, highly plausible.
And I think you should by all means keep the main character as you have, i.e., a liberal who’d really gone all-in for Obama and his whole agenda.
Maybe not stupid, per se, but....well, you know better than me.
Anyway if you sell this thang I’m DEFINITELY going to buy it. It would later be seen as prescient.
Fo sho!
Maybe under a pseudonym? This stuff is gold.
Thanks.
An aside to Matt: Yes, it may be awfully late in the game for a novel, but... if things work out better than we expect, maybe I should develop a character, a moderate-liberal who gets educated. Liberals might be able to relate better, they might continue reading where they wouldn't if the character was conservative.