and the Congressional opposition to him.
It is titled The Obama Opposition.
It begins
The president came to Washington thinking he could change Washington, make it better, unite it and the nation. He was wrong. As he ascended, the tone of political discourse descended, as much because of who he was as what he did.
There are all kinds of astute observations, noting the various kinds of language used by Republicans in opposition to what Obama has proposed and done: arrogant, elistist, radical, and - yes, this is hardly coded language - uppity.
You need to read the column.
To convince you I will only add the final two paragraphs:
This is a president who was elected by an increasingly diverse national electorate that some find frightening, a president who is pushing a somewhat liberal agenda that some have found intrinsically objectionable, and a president who is battling some historical personality tropes that many cannot abandon.
To his opponents, this president’s greatest sins are his success and his self.
Yep.