As his presidency comes to a close, it’s clear that Barack Obama still finds Americans who disagree with him an illogical and inscrutable species, so inherently backward that there’s no point in making much effort to understand them. Discussing the Democratic party’s troubles in winning the votes of working-class white voters, Obama told Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner that, “Part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively. Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country.”
