Trump: Obama's Legacy

            For the last eight years I have been an unrelenting critic of Barack Obama. With this final essay I say goodbye to the Narcissist-in-Chief as he struts off the world stage, vaunting his many imagined accomplishments and denying responsibility for his notable failures. But should we be thankful for anything he has done for this country?

            Obama’s legacy can be summarized in a few words. On the international front, those words are Aleppo, Jerusalem, and the South China Sea. Among many others, these best represent disasters resulting from America’s failure to lead.

            Aleppo has become the symbol of Obama’s cowardice. Half a million people have died in Syria and five million displaced because Obama chose to do nothing when Assad crossed the president’s red line and launched the genocide of his own people. Capitalizing on the President’s timidity, Russian and Iran, America’s sworn enemies, moved in, while ISIS continued to fill the vacuum created by Obama’s failure to secure the peace in Iraq.

            Jerusalem symbolizes Obama’s treachery in the abandonment of America’s staunchest ally in the Middle East. No president has ever failed to defend Israel against the pack of anti-Semitic jackals in the United Nations. Not until Obama did this past December.

            The South China Sea is the latest symbol of China’s ascendancy in the Pacific. Its militarizing of the area mocks Obama’s impotence in maintaining America’s dominance in the Far East, as well as his clueless response to North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons aimed at our shores.

            On the domestic front, President Obama has given us racial division, unsustainable national debt, economic anemia, the worst labor-force participation in half a century, and a gaggle of leftist policies on energy, health care, and the environment, not to mention a blind eye to the nature of Islamic terrorism.

            It has taken the American voter eight years to finally put an end to the corrosiveness of Obama’s bankrupt agenda. For all his efforts to fundamentally change America both at home and on the world stage, perhaps we can be thankful for Barack Obama’s true legacy, which, for better or for worse, can be summarized in two words: Donald Trump.