Comment by eli_gottlieb
5 years ago
Sure, but it was Bannon and Trump who brought that sort of thing into electoral politics. Barack Obama was constantly telling college students and "cancel culture" that they'd gone too far and needed more civic spirit and respect for others' liberties.
Do you have examples? The only one I'm aware of is this talk in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
That was good, but too late. It seemed like he mostly got "Ok, boomer" responses from his target.
>That was good, but too late. It seemed like he mostly got "Ok, boomer" responses from his target.
Well, Obama was a President, not a cult leader. I'm not sure he ever really believed his voters would obey him about anything.
Nonetheless, he was at least mentioning it negatively at least as far back as 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/president-obama-on...