{"id":883175,"date":"2026-01-07T05:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/america-is-still-living-in-the-backlash-to-obamas-presidency\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:45","slug":"america-is-still-living-in-the-backlash-to-obamas-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/america-is-still-living-in-the-backlash-to-obamas-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"America Is Still Living in the Backlash to Obama\u2019s Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><i>You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4S1YFDv9yIJZ_fo2PO8ieTl3O7bQm8V4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.substack.com\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Substack<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s political rise came because of a white backlash against Barack Obama, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/political-science\/directory\/julia-azari.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Julia Azari<\/a>, a political scientist at Marquette University. She argues Trump\u2019s circumstances are similar to those of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, two other presidents whose predecessors made major advances for African Americans. (Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln; Nixon succeeded Lyndon Johnson.) That\u2019s the argument of her new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691246956\/backlash-presidents?srsltid=AfmBOopoXqkXujEum1EOPgEwSGm6Q7mjxJ5QXlHkH7KTPClRHrPG9JVW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Backlash Presidents.<\/i><\/a> Combating Trumpism, Azari argues, requires recognizing the racial nature of his support. In the cases of Johnson, Nixon, and Trump, American democracy declined in part because of that white backlash, so fighting MAGA will involve fighting anti-Black racism. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/204841\/america-still-living-backlash-obama-presidency\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump\u2019s political rise came because of a white backlash against Barack Obama, says Julia Azari, a political scientist at Marquette University. She argues Trump\u2019s circumstances are similar to those of Andrew Johnson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1441,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-883175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-america","8":"category-still","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}