Donald Trump did what Falwell did!

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Barack Obama remembers: Pepperidge Farm used to remember. In his recent interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama remembered too.

In the exchange to which we refer, Goldberg asked this question:

GOLDBERG (11/16/20): Your wife has always had a slightly different view on the salience of race here, and you don’t dwell on race in this volume, but how much of the opposition to you had to do with the fact that you’re a liberal Democrat, versus you being a Black president?

How much of the opposition to Obama's presidency was a function of race? How much of the opposition was a function of party and tribe?

Such things are hard to measure. But in his answer, Obama briefly remembered:

OBAMA (continuing directly): I actually write about how hard it is to allocate percentages here, because American history and culture are so shaped by our racial history. If someone is in favor of “states’ rights,” it’s very hard to disentangle this statement from race. Maybe they just believe in local government and local control. On the other hand, this debate started as far back as debates between northern and southern states and the maintenance of slavery, and Jim Crow and opposition to busing, you name it. It’s difficult to clearly say how much of this was race, as opposed to opposition to liberalism. The Clintons, for example, generated similar venomous attacks. A lot of that had to do with the culture wars that dated back to the ’60s—Vietnam, pot, sex, rock and roll, the debate between Phyllis Schlafly and Bella Abzug.

Obama continued on from there. It seems to us that the highlighted statement ought to be fleshed out.

Dating at least to the Clinton era, our modern politics has been dominated by The Terminally Stupid and Dumb and, of course, by The Crazy. The Crazy has functioned like this

In Obama's case, a crackpot celebrity—Donald J. Trump—spent five years bruiting the crazy claim that Obama had been born in Kenya. Based upon a string of surveys, an amazingly large percentage of Republicans eventually said that they believed this crazy claim.

That's part of the way The Crazy worked with Obama. But as Obama told Goldberg, The Crazy was active in the case of the Clintons too.

In that instance, a crackpot celebrity—the Reverend Jerry Falwell—began peddling a videotape about the Clintons' many murders. We don't recall that matter being surveyed, but it's safe to say that a significant percentage of anti-Clinton voters believed that lunacy too—and yes, a whole lot else went into that lunatic stew.

The Kenya claim can be said to have been about race. The multiple murders claim involves no such connection. And after that, along came Candidate Gore, and an array of celebrities in the upper-end mainstream press corps spent several years spreading the claim that Gore had a psychiatric need to make ridiculous, inaccurate statements.

Al Gore said he invented the Internet! They said such things again and again and again, over a long stretch of years. 

The Crazy came from Jerry Falwell, then it came from Trump. In between, it came from Chris Matthews and Maureen Dowd and from an endless array of major mainstream journalists. These same people spent twenty years trashing Hillary Clinton, often in the dumbest and most gender-laden ways.

Our tribe is too spectacularly stupid to understand this history. As a group, we're able to notice nothing at all unless we can tie it to race. 

In recent years, we've added gender to our extremely limited playlist. This new concern came along much too late to help Nurse Ratched / Evita Peron, AKA Hillary Clinton. 

(The twenty-four years in which we stared into space while Hillary Clinton was being trashed explain how she lost by an eyelash to Trump. Our team is too stupid to grasp this.)

Our team is just tremendously dumb. We've memorized one or two plays. We know, and are able to notice, nothing else.

Our only real skill involves our ability to say that the others are dumb. We're silly and hopeless and nobody likes us. Even in the face of this, Obama briefly remembered what happened when Clinton arrived.

(Before that, the mainstream press corps discovered that Gary Hart might have a girl friend. That discovery came to us from the msm.)

The Clintons "generated similar venomous attacks?" Children, that's putting it mildly! This is the unnoticed history of modern politics in this, our failing society.

The question we'll soon be raising is simple. How did we get so dumb?


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  2. "Our tribe is too spectacularly stupid to understand this history. As a group, we're able to notice nothing at all unless we can tie it to race."

    This is a ridiculously unfair thing to say about liberals (Democrats). Long before Bill & Hillary were accused of murder, Democrats were being accused of being communists, Russian spies, reds. What Somerby calls "The Crazy" has been standard practice in right-wing politics going back to when Richard Nixon called Helen Gahagan Douglas a communist. It goes back to accusing Warren G. Harding of having "Negro blood," and Eleanor Roosevelt of being a lesbian. I'm sure there were stories spread in the 18th & 19th centuries too, about presidential candidates. It is how politics works.

    But racism is not the same as "The Crazy," nor is sexism (which has kept women out of the presidency and denied them the vote until 1919). And Somerby never mentions religious bigotry, which said that JFK could never make a decision independent of the Pope, and is why we have never had a Jewish president. Liberals don't only care about these forms of bigotry that deny full participation in our political system to people in certain categories. Liberals not only recognize The Crazy, but they invent some themselves, as when Bernie attacked Hillary with the right's favorite memes, plus some of their own.

    The difference between The Crazy and the isms (racism, sexism, religious bigotry, nativism, ageism) is that we know when we are spreading stories that are crazy whereas racism and sexism operate outside conscious awareness and affect all aspects of thinking, making a woman seem strange or awkward or foolish or stupid for doing something a man would be applauded for. The isms are more insidious.

    Once again, Somerby sets up a juxtaposition and says that liberals cannot think about both forms of attack, and have chosen to neglect The Crazy (as if liberals believe any of that stuff) in favor of attacking racism/sexism etc. Why can we not be opposed to both? And Somerby ignores that it has been liberals who complained about Dowd, Mathews at al., not just himself, when they wrote about Gore, Clinton, Kerry, Obama, and Biden. Somerby denigrates feminists because, he says, they didn't defend Hillary, but that is untrue. Somerby dislikes most of today's feminist voices and has not acknowledged Bernie's own sexist attacks on Hillary (or Obama's) during her campaigns. So, Somerby has not been correct or fair in saying that liberals have not called out The Crazy and only care about racism.

    And politics are not worse. The media, including the internet and cable stations, have amplified what was previously less mainstream. It has given The Crazy a voice, along with a lot of information and entertainment that is new to much of the public. Oddly, Somerby never mentions the influence of Facebook, Youtube, podcasts, Twitter, and so much of the media that now spreads disinformation about candidates. The campaigns have adjusted -- it is time for Somerby to do the same.

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  3. Obama is able to think about his life in terms of both race and other frameworks because race wasn't salient to him growing up with his mother and grandparents who were white, sometimes in other cultures that included Asian and Middle Eastern people. Kamala Harris has that biracial perspective too, but many black politicians grow up with black parents in the black subculture, which does emphasize race because race is an intrinsic part of their identity and reality of their daily lives. Obama learned about black culture when he was an adolescent, not from early childhood. So his unexamined assumptions are different than those of Michelle, for example. He can look at issues from both within and outside of the black racial perspective.

    Liberals ask people to consider what it is like to be black or female or elderly or disabled, along with one's own perspective. In that sense, liberals emulate what Obama does naturally (as a result of his unusual upbringing). Somerby is oddly in favor of this when Obama does it, but opposed when liberals ask him to consider a different racial perspective than his own. It may be that Somerby thinks Obama is rejecting a racial subjectivity, instead of adopting a racial perspective that includes wider experience. Obama's view is not un-racial simply because he understands white perspectives as well as black ones. Somerby's perspective is not un-racial either when he wishes his own white perspective to be privileged over that of black people and claims that liberals should not be so obsessed with race, simply because they want to bring black realities into everyone's thinking. White is not the default subjectivity, with every other race an exception to it. Our own childhood upbringing is each person's default, with an expanding view desirable as one grows into adulthood. Obama's life experiences were valuable to him as president of all citizens. Trump's were not. Liberals call for us to widen our perspectives. Somerby says "no thank you."

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  4. "Our team is too stupid to grasp this."

    Who, on our team, doesn't grasp what was done to Hillary?

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  5. Does Somerby ever pay attention to what he is writing?

    The Democrats are the party that nominated Obama, who won, twice.

    Obama clearly understands the nuance that Somerby approves of, and he did not campaign on “identity politics.” Nor did Biden. Both explicitly sought bi-partisanship in their campaigns.

    Both of these candidates were chosen overwhelmingly by Democratic primary voters, and both went on to win. They were demonized anyway.

    So who is Somerby accusing of being dumb and knowing only race and gender politics?

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  6. "Trump only paid for a recount in two Wisconsin counties that both feature large African-American populations that voted for Joe Biden."

    But it is Democrats who think only about race...

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  7. Obama:"It’s difficult to clearly say how much of this was race, as opposed to opposition to liberalism."

    Really? I've seen the white vote by state breakdown, so I'm pretty sure Obama has too...it shows enormous variation. In states like deep South states like LA, AL, and MS Obama got only 10% of the white vote while in states like Vermont an Oregon he got 60-70% of the white vote. Does he really think that the Southern legacy of racial hate and fear is not a big factor in these starkly different voting patterns?

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    1. President Obama has always been very careful with his words. He realized that as the first African-American president he had to toe a very strict line, as did Jackie Robinson when he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier. Can anyone imagine what the reaction would have been had he called out every act of racism against him or every racist caricature? He knew he would never get anywhere doing that, and it would have poisoned the well for any African-American who followed. He knew there was nothing to be gained by being offended. Somerby says the Kenya thing was probably racist. I think the Tea-party witch doctor comparisons during the debate over the Affordable Care Act might have been a touch racist as well.

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    2. You make some very good points. I realize it wouldn't do Obama or the Dems any good to emphasize that Southern whites may be more more racist than whites in most other parts of the country, since they need to win a decent percentage of the white vote to have any chance in states like Georgia and North Carolina. In those states Dems win about 25% of the white vote, which is enough to make them competitive.

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  10. Thank you Jay. It worked wonders for Senator McConnell as well!

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  11. Somerby and the tribe he claims he belong to may well be stupid, as he attests. The broken record he plays here never mentions the mendacious propaganda put forth by Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets, principally Fox in the US. It is a glaring oversight and can only be understood as one that is actively ignored by him, as well as the mainstream media. Jon Stewart was left to shine a light on their activities without much help from Somerby or the MSM. Stewart would never have described his viewership as stupid. One would have to be stupid to do so.

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  12. I agree with this post entirely. The only thing I would add is that the others are dumb.

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