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Michelle Obama Says Voters Let Her Husband Down. Really?
A response to the former first lady’s Netflix film comments.
During the Netflix documentary about her “Becoming” book tour, former first lady Michelle Obama shared her thoughts on the voter turnout not just in the infamous 2016 election, but ones that came before it as well.
Summer Lin of the Miami Herald documented her comments, writing:
“I understand the people who voted for Trump,” she said. “The people who didn’t vote at all, the young people, the women, that’s when you think, man, people think this is a game. It wasn’t just in this election. Every midterm. Every time Barack didn’t get the Congress he needed, that was because our folks didn’t show up. After all that work, they just couldn’t be bothered to vote at all. That’s my trauma.”
Every time Barack didn’t get the congress he needed…
When Barack Obama first took office, there was a democratic supermajority in the house and a majority in the senate as well. Instead of the promised hope and change, fighting to implement Medicare for All and ensuring healthcare coverage for every single American, before he even approached the negotiating table with Republicans he went with Mitt Romney’s and the Heritage Foundation’s plan: a public option, quickly…
