Obama is a true believer in the Leftist cause. How many reformed Lefties can you name? It is untreated moral illness. David Horowitz is the only repentant one I can name.
Leftists have more sympathy for criminals than for the law-abiding. Why? Because successful Leftists steal money, just like criminals, but they can use the force of Government to get our money!
There are any number of former democrats on our boards but you are correct - once a post-modern “liberal” true-believer, always a true believer. The only fix for them is a bullet.
“I didn’t leave the democrat party...the democrat party left me” - Ronald Reagan
But Obama never even developed into a world class leftist. He stayed small time.