Conservatives hated that guy so much that they elected a guy who makes Obama look ten times better than he did before.
I get why they hate him. Imagine if your party followed a highly successful (although morally bankrupt) president, who'd left America far better than he found it, by electing an idiot like George Dubya Bush, who proceeded to get us into an ill-chosen, quagmire war that made us look like idiots all over the world, bungled a major hurricane rescue effort through sheer incompetence, and brought in a massive recession that tanked the economy.
Then the other party followed
your embarrassing disaster by electing a guy who killed off Bin Ladin, saved the automotive industry, got us out of the recession, created massive numbers of jobs, tripled the stock market, improved everyone's access to health care, and had no big scandals that weren't made-up FOX fantasies. God, that would piss you off, that the other party proved to be smarter, capable, and better in every possible way --
despite your party's best efforts to work against America by thwarting him -- and just made your party look even
dumber.And then, to cap it off, when your party wins another election, they put possibly
the worst person in America in office. The guy exposes the evangelical base as
complete horseshit hypocrites who don't actually stand for morality at all. He alienates all our allies while fawning before tyrants. He creates a border nightmare that makes America look like a hateful country instead of a land of liberty. He behaves like a petulant child, and is constantly surrounded with scandals. So far he hasn't managed to derail the great economy his predecessor handed him, but he has slowed it and there are ominous signs in the future.
The G.O.P. went from electing one of the worst presidents in history, and then getting rescued from disaster by the Democrat that followed... to electing Donald Trump, who's so incompetent, immature, and mentally ill that he makes Dubya actually look feasible, and Obama look like damn-near perfection in comparison.
They've
got to be quietly panicking because they know the world's seeing all this. They're exposed as corrupt idiots whose judgement cannot be trusted. I can't imagine how humiliating it's got to be. I'd almost have some pity for them if they weren't such assholes about it, making fools out of themselves trying to deny what's obvious.
They're going to watch that Obama speech and just
seethe. Because, even though they'll
never admit it, he's right, and he's easily the better man. Hell, even Dubya's a better man than Trump. It's hard to name anyone who isn't, now that Charles Manson's dead.