Michael Hamar points toward a piece in the Boston Globe that argues for something I’ve believed for a long time, and said here often: Much of the hostility toward Barack Obama, and the achievements of his administration, is no more than racist angst that a NIGRA MOOZLIM!! did those things while living in OUR WHITE HOUSE!!
Seriously: The racist nutjobs who fantasize about a Sunnybrook Republic that never was can’t stand it, and are determined to make others pay whatever price is necessary to undo Obama’s achievements.
Obamacare repeal is based on racial resentment
House Republicans are taking health services away from disabled children, women who give birth, and survivors of rape and sexual assault. They are consigning thousands of people with serious illnesses to death by making them uninsurable in an era of unaffordable treatment. Virtually every reputable medical organization in the country condemns the health care bill that passed the House Thursday, but the GOP clings to two reasons for passing it.
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Most Americans have no quibble with Obamacare itself, but for Republicans, repealing it is and always has always been a way to repudiate former president Barack Obama. Since taking office, President Trump has done several things that he previously chastised Obama for, but these contradictions have had little impact on his party or their supporters.
Most Republicans, who are not conservatives in any meaningful sense of the word, don’t seem to be aware that Republicans since Teddy Roosevelt have argued for some flavor of a national health service, or that Obamacare was modeled after their party’s 2012 nominee’s plan for Massachusetts, which was itself adapted from a plan put forward by a conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation.
It’s all about hating Obama — and they don’t care whom they hurt.