Blame Barack: Obamas lost mystique marks the end of a political era

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.As such, he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history.Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere.Obama and fellow Democratic insiders abruptly engineered the withdrawal of his rival 2020 presidential candidates: hard left but likely sure-loser candidates including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg.The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration.Or, as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term: “If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in ..

.”The Obamaites then got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives that they could only have dreamed of while in actual power.But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation — hyperinflation, 12 million illegal aliens, a ruined border, spiraling crime, a shattered foreign policy of appeasement, the popular backlash against DEI/woke/trans chauvinism, partisan lawfare and weaponization of the government.And the ruling radicalism beneath the Biden facade eventually cost the Democrats nearly everything — the presidency, the House and the Senate.An inert Biden is departing office with a 36% favorability rating in a recent Emerson poll.His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris...