I wanted to lib out, I swear, but couldn’t stop rolling my eyes at the endless centrist takes. The former global leader’s main take on why we’re backsliding away from the post-war era of social democracy (what Obama calls democratic liberalism) was that “we got complacent, we got smug”. Who, exactly, is “we”? I was 16 when he was elected during the global financial crash. The Twin Towers fell when I was eight. I don’t think I’ve ever felt assured that things will always get better — and they’re demonstrably getting worse. “There was a Davos sense of ‘it’s all good’, the end of history, McDonalds everywhere, you can order your jeans online,” said Obama. Must have been nice.
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