President Obama just isn't holding it in anymore. Eight years into having to deal with an increasingly insane Republican party means he has no more fucks to give, and he's going out by setting the record straight about Republicans. Here's some of what he had to say about Republicans and Donald Trump while he was on the stump in Nevada over the weekend.
The president said they had flirted for years with a strain of bare-knuckled partisanship that appealed to people who sought to delegitimize him by falsely asserting that he was born outside the United States and was plotting to take Americans' guns and impose martial law.
Now, he said, they should be held to account for the consequences.
"They just stood by and said nothing, and their base actually began to believe this crazy stuff," Mr. Obama said. "Donald Trump didn't start this. He just did what he always does, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it and promote it."
"Now, when suddenly it's not working," he added, "suddenly that's a deal breaker. Well, what took you so long? What the heck?" He went on to repeat the phrase several times.
This is why when President Obama campaigns for Hillary, it's in states where there's also a critical Senate race. He knows better than anyone how a Republican Congress can hamstring any attempt at progress, and how their rabid adherence to the extremist base and winning at all costs means representing their constituents comes second—or third, because they also have to answer to the Kochs before the country.
If anyone can make that argument, it's Obama. And his message is to take back Congress. In his words: "Do it big—don’t leave any doubt!"
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