1. As the Democratic Party’s base has become increasingly progressive, its leaders have resorted to demonizing the “top 1 percent” and Wall Street bankers during campaign season. No one benefitted from such weaponized rhetoric more than Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. He smeared Wall Street “fat cats” time after time on the trail.
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/330806-obama-proves-democrats-anti-wall-street-rhetoric-a
2. Of course he did - he claimed he was the second coming of FDR for crying out loud. So why wouldn't rational people expect a depression to follow?
3. Agreed!
4. Marxists (progressives) here defend Obama like they would their hometown sports team every day.
5. Actually it isn't (industrial production, debt levels, trade deficit, labor force participation, median incomes, homelessness, poverty rates - interest rates remained at essentially zero his entire time in office!!!) - the only measures that "improved" under Obama were those that are distorted by big government (GDP, DJIA & other financial assets, the number of jobs as opposed to LFPR & incomes, etc.).