Unmasking Obama by Jack Cashill

Author:Jack Cashill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2020-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

The Pink Front

On January 20, 2017, women and their male feminist allies massed in major cities across America to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump. My suspicion is that thousands of these people had already booked hotel rooms in Washington in anticipation of Hillary Clinton’s inauguration and launched the protest lest their room deposits go to waste. In any case, women across the nation mimicked their sisters in DC, and so a movement was born.

Two female reporters for the New York Times—one, natch, a woman of color—breathlessly chronicled the “sea of pink hats” at one venue and “the river of pink hats” at another. For the left, pink was the new red, “all shades of pink.” Unwary readers could not have missed the color scheme—the lengthy article overflowed with photos—but they could easily have missed the strong leftist tilt of the march. The reporters did not once use the words “progressive,” “liberal,” “left-wing,” or “leftist,” let alone “pinko.” To the Times, these were just a bunch of understandably angry, everyday women in pink. 1

This was a routine deception on the part of the Times. It was well enough known that an estimated 53 percent of white women voted for the man these pink ladies were protesting. Well known too was the fact that march organizers had specifically excluded pro-life groups. Lest anyone miss the point, the march’s official platform made access to “safe, legal, affordable abortion and birth control for all people” a defining principle of the movement.2 In reality, it was the defining principle.

Seven months before Trump’s inauguration, President Obama addressed a gathering called the “United States of Women Summit.” Although he pretended otherwise, Obama was not speaking to all women or even to all feminists. He was speaking to the advance guard of the pink front. “For the first time in history,” Obama told his audience, “a woman is a major party’s presumptive presidential nominee.”3 Much depended here on how one defined “presumptive.” In January 2007, Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee of her party, and then Barack Obama exerted his half-white male privilege. Some women never forgave him. From the beginning, he had to win back their affection. There would be no faulting his effort. As to his accomplishments, that is another story.

In the age of Trump, we forget how grandiose Obama could be. The 2016 summit found him at his most self-important. The man who could make the oceans subside reminded his audience that he had “significantly improved the lives of women and girls not just here at home, but around the world.” Unsaid was that many of those imagined “improvements” came at the expense of the average woman. More women were “choosing to be single,” said Obama as though the “choosing” part was both real and good. In the black community, it was conspicuously neither. He boasted too that women were now receiving almost 50 percent more college degrees than men, not pausing to reflect how those numbers were sapping male ambition and unbalancing the marriage market.

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