05_never_again
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I think that certainly turbocharges it, yes. Also, the fact that someone like Trump was elected right after him (even though Obama was re-elected) feels like a direct repudiation of him and the image he portrayed. In their eyes, a younger, dynamic, diverse, trendy, progressive image was replaced with an old, racist, un-hip, White one. Of course, it didn't help matters that Trump won the election because a notable number of people who voted for Obama twice, and are "supposed to" vote Democratic, voted for Trump.I think the outrage over Trump stems partially from the departure of Obama. It seemed to me that there was an element of Obama supporters that viewed Obama through a quasi-religious lens and saw him as some sort of divine being. Now that he's gone, the herd feels it is without a shepherd.
90% of the outrage regarding him, IMO, comes from the rhetoric he employs when talking about immigration/illegal immigration. If he had a moderate stance on immigration, or didn't employ the overheated rhetoric that he does about it, he'd still be controversial but the criticism of him would be much less hysterical.