A communist-the product of Frank Marshall Davis.
A narcissist.
A bread-and-butter, social justice progressive.
A Muslim.
An anti-colonialist.
A committed environmentalist.
An unrooted opportunist, advanced beyond his capabilities by affirmative action.
A typical constitutional law professor of the left.
I'm sure there are a few more that do not occur as I write.
Certainly, most of these are not mutually exclusive, for example, he could be a narcissist and a communist at the same time, in fact, the more committed and the higher up the pecking order the communist, the more likely he is to be a narcissist. Anti-colonialists and Communists have been bedfellows for nearly a century. It is no longer thought anomalous for a Muslim to be a communist and the more I learn of Muslim history the more it appears that the two are compatible up to the last drama in which one must kill off the other. In any event, both are statists, neither believes in any check on the power of the state, both see the United States as the principal obstacle to their dream of world domination and both are unshakably convinced of both the righteousness and the inevitability of their cause.
It might depend on the day or the cause. For example, Obama seems to be committed to the idea of climate change but is that because he is a true green believer or because he sees the issue as a Trojan horse to "transform" America? His narcissism has been on display in his mannerisms but more concretely in his arrogant even tyrannical deployment of executive orders. If he is issuing executive orders and the cause of green goodness there is no and his self-righteousness.
That he is specifically an anti-colonialist I think explains much of his character and his administration. The most obvious example has to do with the Churchill bust. I think the D ' Sousa movie has themuch on point. Narcissism is really the obverse side of the coin of insecurity which is the natural psychological state of the anti-colonialist. Muslims and Communists are anti-colonialists but that is true of much of the left.
Whatever the cause (and that might well depend on the issue) it seems to me that we are safe in believing that he is not a patriot, indeed, he is anti-American who despises our constitutional system which leaves him free to give full vent to his narcissism, his huge resentments against America and our system, to play in international waters to consciously undermine America and weaken her in order to bring about a transformation, not just in America, but in the world.
Thank you for the kind words.
