Former President Barack Obama’s struggle with his idealism and harsh reality

Throwing the sand in the wheels made a solution to the crisis more difficult and intensified the anger of many Americans about it, Obama writes. And the Republicans understood how easy it was to direct that anger, how useful fear could be.

The template that was applied looked something like this according to Obama: “The government takes money, jobs, … from hard-working, decent people like us and gives it to people like them, the people who don’t share our values, not so hard. work like us, and are guilty of their own problems ”. And he adds, “I see all this clearly now, but that was not the case at the time.”

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