In 1991, Barack Obama was 29 years old and about to graduate from Harvard Law School. That year, he penned a paper with his buddy Robert Fisher called “Race and Rights Rhetoric” where he summed up the average American mindset in one rather brutal and prescient sentence: “I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will.”
That excerpt of that previously unpublished law school paper, and much more, is inside Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, the behemoth new 1,460-page biography of Obama that focuses on his early years. Although the New York Times called the book “a bloated, tedious and… ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive,” it has at least a few interesting tidbits, including a young Obama’s thoughtful analysis of the American psyche’s Trumpian desires.
In “Race and Rights Rhetoric,” Obama and Fisher argued that the civil rights rhetoric of the 1960s although “a vehicle for black liberation… has impeded, rather than facilitated [achieving] black empowerment.” When Obama and Fisher analyzed the pitfalls of the American dream, both among the white majority and African Americans, they wrote:
[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will.
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Hmm… then he became the left’s current caricature of Trump; a racist incompetent that pandered to Russians.
They were bound to dig up something Obama said that was nice about Trump, at that time Trump was donating to Democrats so his building projects could go through.