I remember this guy would interrupt the network programming during his first year to pontificate. He did it so much that the network execs complained.
This point of view is obviously absurd, yet it reflects the previous concerns held by many that Obama and his fellow travellers might attempt a communist-style purge and send millions to camps.
American politics is polarized because there has been a more or less successful social(ist) revolution that is not accepted by half the population, who now have a viable outlet for their frustrations and a place to cast a vote, something they did not have in 2008 or 2012 during the period when this revolution moved into the political mainstream out of its academic foundations.
No revolutionary should ever imagine that he is immune from retaliation. Once you declare (and win) a revolution like Lenin did, you almost inevitably activate violent resistance. This is probably a fear that Obama and others have, that now out of power, the people they shoved aside might come after them. But instead of saying this directly, he hides behind a phantom illusion of Trump’s interest in a larger retaliation against millions who merely voted for Obama.
No, the correct form of counter-revolution in this instance is to bring legal charges against the globalists who committed crimes (up to and including treason) and to make those charges stick in court with consequences.
Otherwise there is no counter-revolution, just a period without revolutionary gains. Make no mistake, if the globalist beast is not slain in this eight-year period of opportunity, it will go on to worse and more dangerous episodes from which America may truly not recover.
This is Trump’s biggest challenge (among many), to apply the full measure of retaliation against those who thought they could turn America into a communist society without any chance of punishment or retaliation. That must not be allowed to happen. It’s not a “free speech” issue, a society has the right to choose the boundaries within which it is willing to steer a course, and the globalists wanted to go too far to the left. If somebody came along and really was a Hitler clone, then the same thing would apply.
Donald Trump is no Hitler. He’s essentially a social libertarian who wants a balanced budget and a rational economy. In any sane political discourse he would be seen as a centrist or at least on the center-right. There is nobody with any power in American politics remotely like Adolf Hitler. But there are plenty of people very much like Lenin — the only saving grace is that none of them so far have gone the next step (to Stalin) and brought more widespread violence into the equation. Lenin had to kill more people to get his revolution to work than the globalists have done, which mystifies me somewhat, you would think there might have been more opposition to them before this Trump period. And Trump has been masterful in not overtly stating what his counter revolution is about, he simply frames it in positive terms (make America great again), if he actually came right out and said he was anti-globalist like a Steve Bannon might, then he would engage the forces of the left in a mortal fight to the death.
Obama knows what is up here. He is perhaps more evil than stupid. And he wants to cut off Trump’s counter revolution before it can gain any traction. He may succeed because even Trump might not have the stomach for what is needed, let alone any large number of supporters. A few folks here would, but beyond that, how many? Probably far fewer than one million, and it would take twenty million at a minimum to deliver a successful counter-revolutionary blow. And that would need to be managed from one central command. Otherwise it would just fizzle out in pointless shouting matches all over the nation.