I have often compared Barack Hussein Obama to a 3rd World Liberation Demagogue. He always blames others for his failures. A cult of personality has evolved around Obama. Criticism of his policies is marginalized and dismissed as racist. When cornered on his failures, he demagogues and paints himself as a victim who is trying to do good against the odds.
Obama’s Demagoguery has been more effective than Conservatives would like to admit. His approval ratings are in the mid to upper 40’s, whereas a normal politician would be in the low 30’s. Americans still personally like Obama, despite not liking his policies. Obama has effectively decoupled his policy failures from his job and personal approval. This makes him very formidable even with a bad economy. Victor Davis Hanson explains Obama’s Demagoguery and its effectiveness.
We often associate demagoguery in the U.S. with wild right-wing nationalists or cultural chauvinists, such as Joe McCarthy or Father Coughlin, or with folksy Southern “spread-the-wealth” populists, such as William Jennings Bryan (“The Great Commoner”) or Huey Long. And, of course, abroad there were no better demagogues than Mussolini and Hitler, who both started out as national socialists and then united the classes by transferring class hatred onto foreign bogeymen, in a fashion we later see most effectively in Juan and Eva Perón.
Demagoguery, at its best, requires good oratory and charisma — which is why Jimmy Carter was such a dismal failure at it, despite his half-hearted demonization of three-martini lunches and private yachts at a time of a record misery index that saw high unemployment, out-of-control inflation, and usurious interest rates, coupled with a neutralist foreign policy that had led to Russians in Afghanistan, Communist takeovers in Central America, and American hostages in Teheran. Carter’s mock-serious delivery was so droll, his presence so wooden, that his fist-pounding against “them” turned into caricature.
Under a more skilled practitioner such as Barack Obama, the arts of demagoguery have become somewhat more refined in our time, but they nevertheless follow the same old patterns:
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Barack Hussein Obama and Michelle Obama are the Juan and Eva Peron of the United States. Like their Argentine ideological brethren, they took advantage of an economic emergency to implement a State/Crony Capitalist model. When confronted with the failure of this model Obama, like Juan Peron, demagogues his opponents and blames the “other” for his failure. Make no mistake about it, Obama is our first 3rd World Liberation President.
In order to defeat Obama, we might need a Conservative who can Demagogue back and personally destroy him. Facts will not matter with Obama. He is viewed as a savior who has come to wash away America’s sins. He can get re-elected with 10% unemployment if Conservatives don’t attack him. Hit him on his policies and attack his Demagogic nature with Demagoguery of our own. Emphasize his un-American ideology and call it out for what it is. Barack Hussein Obama is a 3rd World Liberation Ideologue.
