I suspect that a lot of people show genuine symptoms of trauma from the 24-hour news cycle telling them to be afraid. This person may not have been affected personally by Obama, but if they watched Fox News throughout his presidency they probably felt traumatized by the end of it.

This "traumatizing media" effect certainly applies to the left, too, and I think social media is the common accelerant.

True. Obama delivered after the depression caused by Iraq war and housing crash, if anything.

Obama kicked the failing can of neoliberalism down the road. He could have very easily bailed out the American people directly but chose not to do that and as such I feel like he alienated liberal Americans as much as he did conservative ones.

Ta-Nehisi article "Trump is the first white president" explains it well, imo.

That title is interesting. I've heard the corollary that the social justice/identity politics of the 2010s through Peak Woke is what awakened a "white" identity in the US.

The MAGAs responded to the "sins of the fathers" narrative by accepting and celebrating their identity. Unintended consequences.

People who fight against racism know full well that doing so incites the racists to action. Confronting them head-on is an intended consequence.