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This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues. But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.

Thus spake Barack Obama in a statement Scott has posted in full. It’s predictable boilerplate but consider the timing. Eight years after Ronald Reagan left office, it’s hard to find his public statements on the loss of Bob Dole and Jack Kemp in 1996. Obama’s statement is a confession that Kamala Harris was in fact his surrogate for a fourth term. Hillary Clinton, would have been his figurehead for a third term, but the first Trump victory pushed that to the “Biden-Harris” administration, also a misnomer.

As David Samuels explained in “The Obama Factor,” POTUS 44 was running the show, with “turtles all the way down” in the White House, not exactly a constitutional arrangement. Obama was also was largely responsible for “the disaster that we are living through now.” His recent statement about “living in a democracy” is also of interest.

Barack Obama grew up as Barry Soetoro, stepson of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965, during the Sukarno Era. As Paul Johnson noted in Modern Times, Sukarno was an advocate of “guided democracy,” an autocrat appointing a successor and deploying state powers against the opposition. That dynamic was on display in 2016, when Obama named Hillary Clinton as his successor and deployed the DOJ and FBI against candidate and President Trump.

Like Kamala Harris, Obama believes that racial intersectionality is a qualification for office, but there’s more to it. As the President Formerly Known as Barry Soetoro explained, if you like your health plan you can keep it, if you have a business you didn’t build that, and no scandals whatsoever with him in power. When jihadist Nidal Hasan murdered 13 Americans, including Pvt. Francheska Velez, who was pregnant, it was only workplace violence, not even gun violence. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford took seven bullets from Hasan but Obama declined to meet with him.

In 2012 Obama told Russian president Dimitry Medvedev he needed more “space” and “flexibility” on missile defense, which the American president had already canceled for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech Republic. If Sado-Stalinist dictator Fidel Castro ever did anything with which Obama disagreed, nothing comes to mind. He also shipped a planeload of cash to Iran’s Islamic regime. So liberals such as Samuels and David Garrow are now on to him.

As Garrow noted in his massive Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, the vaunted Dreams from My Father was a novel, not an autobiography, and the author a composite character. Garrow also interviewed the composite character’s former girlfriend Genevieve Cook, who spent part of her childhood in Indonesia. In a poem, Cook called Obama a “pompous jive.” He still is in 2024, but as Scott notes:

Maybe this time around he won’t instigate or support the efforts of the federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies to undermine the Trump administration with something like the Russia hoax, but one would be a fool to doubt it.

Indeed, the FBI and CIA are now openly deployed against Trump, who has survived two assassination attempts. The composite character is doubtless aware that Sukarno proclaimed 1964 “the year of living dangerously.” Between now and January 20 is Donald Trump’s transition period of living dangerously, with dangerous years to follow.