One thing I want to do with this meta thread is not let my unabashed middle-class globalist bougie class snobbery color my cold takes too much. Yep, I’m probably part of the class demonized as “elites,” and do harbor some of the contempt Trumpies sense and react angrily to.
Obama’s experience is not quite comparable to mine. Black America has a unique relationship to white-centric inner circles because it historically helped define them via opposition. In many cases, Black America has its own “shadow inner circles” that for eg I could never enter.
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Pre-Obama is a time marker in the Trump reception arc here. “he” is Trump. I.e you vs. Trump, insider/outsider, pre ‘07, ‘08
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There was a basic “put the uppity black back in his place” aspect to Trump’s whole arc of course, from birther controversy onwards. In a way he has no identity 9f his own. He’s simply the anti-Obama in every way.
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