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I mean. If you can authorize, excuse, and cover up murdering innocent children, surely you are in some meaningful sense evil, no?

I don't think "evil" means "of below average moral capacity." I think Barack Obama is of (significantly) above average moral capacity.

But evil is the choices we make and the harm we cause, not merely how well or poorly we compare to other people in the same circumstances.

That is exactly what I said. To faithfully execute the office of President of the United States requires one to do, and so be, evil.

Barack Obama is by some margin the least evil person to have taken the job in my lifetime. That seems indisputable.

But to deny his evil is to deny the humanity of his various victims, from children killed in drone strikes to deportees to water protectors.