Barack Obama has an explanation for Donald Trump. It’s his explanation for everything that falls short of Obama worship: bitter clinging to guns and religion.
Donald Trump’s political success continues to gnaw at President Obama as he wraps up his presidency and prepares to hand the keys to the White House to his successor. In an interview with National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep, the President took another shot at explaining why Trump continues to rise in the polls despite his inflammatory rhetoric.
Obama asserted that there is a growing anger among “blue-collar men” who are not able to cope with a changing economy and a changing demographic makeup of America:
I do think that when you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses that people have been going through because of the financial crisis, because of technology, because of globalization, the fact that wages and incomes have been flatlining for some time, and that particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck, you combine those things and it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear. Some of it justified but just misdirected.
Obama’s failed presidency couldn’t have anything to do with people seeking a change, could it? Of course not. The bottom line is the American people are sick of so-called experts and professional politicos who are more adept at passing the buck than managing the country.
AAN Staff
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