Cutting Speech Criticism Trump by Barack Obama

But Obama, who has tended to adopt a Whiggish view of history moving slowly but inexorably toward justice, may have seemed to be repressed by the Trump phenomenon. "Progress is not just in a straight line," he said.

The bad side of the "good side of history"

However, lest the attention to Trump's existential threat convince anyone that Obama became the wild-eyed Alinskyite, his opponents still suspected him, he quarreled with two new Democratic Party tendencies.

"There are well-intentioned people, passionate about social justice, who think that things have deteriorated so much and that the lines are so clearly drawn that you have to fight fire with fire. We have to do the same things with the Republicans that they do to us, adopt their tactics, say everything that works, invent things on the other side, "he said. He said that he was not in agreement, not because he was "soft" or interested in "bipartism empty," but because "to move this country forward , solve problems and improve people's lives, we need a government that works well. "

Obama also rejected the dichotomy between embracing identity politics and prosecuting white voters.

"This whole notion that has arisen recently about the need for Democrats to choose between trying to seduce the voters of the white working class, or the color voters and the LGBT women and Americans – that's nonsense ", did he declare. "I got votes from all demographic groups. We won because we reached everyone and [by] compete everywhere and fight for every vote, and that's what we have to do in this election and all the elections that will follow. "

This focus on elevation and unity has of course been the star of In a moment of national despair and fatigue, and incessant negativity on all sides, it is refreshing to hear about politics in positive terms and constructive. But any hope that Obama can heal the divisions of the Democratic Party could be premature. It should be remembered that during the two mid-term elections during the Obama presidency, his party was, to use his term, "bombed". His focus on state-level candidates is at best belated after the demolition of the Democratic Party's local races during his presidency.

The praised character of Friday's rhetoric could also make the Democrats think. These tools worked very well for him, completing the task of electing a young black man named Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency on two occasions. But when others tried to borrow them, they found the tools difficult to handle, and the Obama era gave way to the Trump election in 2016. All indications are that Democrats are going to to do well in November the House, but the deeper divisions in politics and society will remain, and perhaps even deepen. If Obama's spirit impulses could not prevent Trump from becoming president, how far will they overthrow him and repair the damage?