Barack Obama: The Greatest Republican President of My Lifetime.
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Barack Obama was the greatest Republican president of my lifetime—a statement sure to fire up establishment liberals and conservatives alike. But for progressives in the United States, this is what the Obama years felt like. Today’s episode examines the seminal policy achievements of the Obama years from the Affordable Care Act and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to DACA and the response to the Global Financial Crisis. We offer the liberal and conservative views of the same issues, then finish with the progressive perspective on all.
Resources
Migration Policy Institute: The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?
TBIJ: Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes…
NPR: Pledging To End Two Wars, Obama Finds Himself Entangled In Three
Video: Cornel West's Note to Obama
UNFTR Resources
Video: Barack Obama: The BEST REPUBLICAN President Ever
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said, fuck it. |
| 0:07.8 | Gives the middle finger to authority and says, kiss my ass. |
| 0:11.7 | But instead of a revolution, he started a podcast. |
| 0:15.5 | Just what the world be. |
| 0:17.7 | He started a podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | Another basic white guy who started a podcast Another basic white guy |
| 0:21.0 | Who started a podcast |
| 0:22.9 | But it's fun because he curses |
| 0:24.9 | All through the podcast |
| 0:26.6 | On a fucking the Republic |
| 0:28.6 | With his motherfucking podcast |
| 0:30.5 | Podcast |
| 0:30.5 | A few statements |
| 0:30.8 | A few statements have the ability to enrage both conservatives and liberals alike. |
| 0:45.2 | Barack Obama, who's the greatest Republican president of my lifetime. |
| 0:49.7 | Now, understand, I'm not just trying to be inflammatory here. |
| 0:52.7 | This is something I genuinely believe, |
| 0:54.9 | but it requires a pretty detailed explanation. And the reason I think it's important to put this |
| 0:59.6 | out there is because our country is having an existential crisis under authoritarian rule, |
| 1:04.9 | and it's obscuring our judgment at a critical juncture. The guy who's in there today |
| 1:10.1 | is there because of the perceived |
| 1:12.6 | and real failures of the Obama administration. If not for this era, there is no Trump 1.0. |
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