Obama’s legacy: Decimation of the Democratic Party

Six weeks after the November General Election, The New York Times published an incredulous column entitled, “Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?”

Was the 1929 Stock Market Crash bad for investors? Was Hurricane Katrina bad for the Gulf Coast?

In 2009, Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. Progressive media hailed the party’s “permanent majority.” Today, Democrats control none. Since 2009, Democratic Senate seats have declined by 12 to 48; House seats dropped from 256 to 194; Democrats lost 12 governorships and 13 additional state legislatures. Nearly 1,000 Democratic state officeholders received pink slips. Obama’s party hasn’t been so small or weak since the 1920s.

Blinded by creepy leader worship, Democrats formulated dozens of analgesic rationalizations for those embarrassments, while overlooking the lone constant: Barack Obama’s presidency.

Obama’s imagined Democratic ascendancy became a gift to Republicans. 2008’s breathless “Hope and Change” and 2012’s “Yes We Can” ultimately produced countless Democratic disasters. “Recovery Summer” never materialized. Jobs reports were gamed to obscure the millions of demoralized job-seekers abandoning the workforce.

Eight years of near-record labor non-participation rates, record low growth and consecutive years of zero interest rates stigmatized Obama’s presidency.

The national debt doubled to nearly $20 trillion. America’s Triple-A bond rating was revoked. Ironically, Obama opposed the domestic hydrocarbon-based energy bonanza that fueled his anemic recovery.

Obama’s prevarications and misjudgments were legion: Force-fed on his brazen lies, Obamacare is dying as insurers withdraw and premiums and deductibles soar. His administration unilaterally rewrote civil rights laws and betrayed American veterans. Touring Asia, Obama libeled Americans, the world’s most productive workers, as “lazy.” Last May, Obama stated, “By almost every measure, America is better, and the world is better than it was 50 years ago, or 30 years ago, or even eight years ago.”

Americans were exhausted by Obama’s self-promoting fantasies, by his moral vanity, hypocritical sanctimony, arrogance, condescension and his foreign policy blunders packaged as “smart diplomacy.”

Obama lost the peace in Iraq, shafted Israel, lost Turkey and Libya, gifted $100 billion to nuke-developing Iranian terror sponsors, labeled ISIS a jayvee team, restarted the Cold War, deferred to an adventurous China and damaged historic friendships. Humiliatingly, after Obama campaigned there for “Remain,” the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union

Americans and the economy were victimized by hundreds of imperial executive decrees, mountains of oppressive regulations, Obama’s politicization of the Internal Revenue Service and his weaponization of the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.

Americans watched as Obama rejected generations of American values. Sadly, Obama’s horribly divisive two terms set back race relations in America by decades. Accusing a nation which twice elected a black president of “institutional racism” isn’t merely unpersuasive, it’s repulsively insulting.

Eight years of Obama’s chronic narcissism, shameful extralegal conduct and incompetence transformed “Hope and Change” into “Make America Great Again.”

Was Obama bad for Democrats? To ask the question is to answer it. But, history will confirm that he was even worse for America.