I firmly believe that the nation was like the frog slowly being boiled alive but, during the Obama years, they turned up the heat too fast and enough liberals (not the loony left, but the “thinking” liberals) got woke. Not to mention the center. I actually used to say this on the liberal sites and YouTube video comments back before the election.
Yes, I think they gave us Trump. Obama was what set up the country for Trump. And I was saying that when I was no fan of trump and considered him to be the “strong man” of “The Road to Serfdom”.
Maybe you’re right, but I also believe this country would not have been dramatically different if Mitt Romney had won in 2008 or 2012 (I present him as a hypothetical candidate in 2008 because John McCain would have been a total disaster).