Obama isn’t coming to rescue Democrats in desperate need of leadership: NY Times columnist

New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom said Friday that erstwhile President Barack Obama volition not beryllium coming to Democrats' corporate rescue arsenic the enactment struggles to find nationalist enactment successful the aftermath of their stinging decision successful 2024.

Cottom argued that Democrats hopeless for Obama to prevention the enactment are "undignified" and weak, asserting that alteration volition not travel from above, but alternatively from "the streets."

"We indispensable commencement asking however we tin prevention ourselves. We are seeing the commencement of that successful places similar Los Angeles, San Antonio and Raleigh, N.C.," she wrote, referencing the anti-ICE protests occurring crossed the country. "Only direct, sustained protestation volition support us."

The Times columnist claimed that President Donald Trump has led the state into "dangerous territory" by deploying the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, suggesting the infinitesimal feels important capable to warrant Obama’s intervention.

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Former President Barack Obama is 1 of the Democratic Party's astir fashionable figures. (Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

She noted that the societal media murmurs and essays questioning Obama's whereabouts astatine specified a pivotal infinitesimal talk to an accepted truth: "The Democratic Party lacks leadership" successful the aftermath of Kamala Harris' 2024 defeat.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., connection "glimmers of a charismatic enactment caput waiting successful the wings," she wrote. While Obama whitethorn consciousness similar a bully option, she wrote, she gave his presidency a mixed reappraisal from a wide perspective, saying helium was a "product of his times."

Cottom diagnosed those who judge that Obama volition travel backmost to prevention the enactment with "Obama Derangement Syndrome" (ODS). She argued that adjacent if Obama did marque his instrumentality to the governmental arena, helium would person a hard clip competing successful the "outrage era" of societal media algorithms and large tech monopolies.

Donald Trump's decision of Kamala Harris successful 2024 has near Democrats searching for a existent leader. (Left: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images;; Right: CAMILLE COHEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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"Anyone who has talked to a alien astir the quality knows however our shared world has deteriorated. It’s not conscionable the uninformed. It’s the sick informed who judge A.I.-generated videos, stock governmental memes astir stolen elections and prosecute successful the astir unhinged governmental infotainment imaginable," she stated. "That’s the doorbell that those with O.D.S. ideate Obama tin unring."

She contended that the Democratic Party's hunt for a "charismatic preacher" is what has led to the "silly calls" for a Joe Rogan of the near — oregon a person with amusement chops similar Trump to merchantability their governmental message.

"If we presume that the near is simply a coherent ideology with committed adherents — and I would reason that is debatable — it does not request a Rogan. It needs a Spotify," Cottom declared, reinforcing her statement by pointing retired what Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has done for blimpish sermon online.

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Former President Barack Obama speaks astatine a rally. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

In The Atlantic this week, writer Mark Leibovich quoted progressives who felt Obama was excessively absent fixed the gravity of countering Trump.

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"No substance however brazen Trump becomes, the astir effectual communicator successful the Democratic Party continues to opt for minimal communication. His 'audacity of hope' presidency has fixed mode to the fierce lethargy of semi-retirement," helium wrote.