{"id":556761,"date":"2021-06-08T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556761"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:20:31","slug":"obama-attacks-republicans-for-unrecognizable-and-unacceptable-views-says-dark-spirits-have-taken-over-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-attacks-republicans-for-unrecognizable-and-unacceptable-views-says-dark-spirits-have-taken-over-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Attacks Republicans For \u2018Unrecognizable And Unacceptable\u2019 Views, Says \u2018Dark Spirits\u2019 Have Taken Over GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-attacks-republicans-for-unrecognizable-and-unacceptable-views-says-dark-spirits-have-taken-over-gop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-08-at-10.48.45-AM-scaled-e1623167447518.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama went after Republicans in a CNN interview on Monday for accepting \u201cunrecognizable and unacceptable\u201d positions in their party.<\/p>\n<p>Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/07\/politics\/obama-fatherhood-leadership-legacy-political-landscape-cnntv\/index.html\">told CNN host Anderson Cooper<\/a> he thought there were \u201cenough guardrails institutionally\u201d that would allow the Republican establishment to hold back former President Donald Trump. He added that the \u201cdark spirits\u201d that began to rise among Republicans during his presidency have now become the base of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of calling out questionable behavior, Obama said Republicans have been \u201ccowed into accepting\u201d views that \u201cwould be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.6645367412141\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former President Barack Obama says, \u201cWe have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKtzcHbozW\">pic.twitter.com\/uKtzcHbozW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNPolitics\/status\/1402068027395481608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In particular, the former president blamed Republicans for their willingness \u201cto embrace a way of thinking about our democracy\u201d he said would have been out-of-line in previous years. His remarks were largely a reference to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, when a pro-Trump mob <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/07\/trump-supporters-dead-arrested-police-report-capitol-riot\/\">breached the building<\/a> during the legislature\u2019s certification of the 2020 election results. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/19\/obama-book-smear-trump-madman-racist-sexist-pig-edward-isaac-dovere-battle-for-the-soul\/\">(RELATED: New Book Alleges Obama Smeared \u2018Madman\u2019 Trump As \u2018Racist, Sexist Pig\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost all Republican lawmakers at the time, including then-Vice President Mike Pence and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/07\/mcconnell-vows-probe-into-capitol-security\/\">condemned<\/a> the riot. A handful of Republican lawmakers later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/13\/house-votes-impeach-president-donald-trump-incitement-insurrection\/\">voted to impeach<\/a> Trump in the riot\u2019s aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>But Obama attacked Republicans for walking back their criticism of Trump, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/06\/donald-trump-teases-2024-run-wont-say-mike-pence-running-mate-north-carolina-speech\/\">remains influential<\/a> within the party and continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/department-of-justice-arizona-donald-trump\/\">echo his allegations<\/a> of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then poof, suddenly everybody was back in line,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that there would be so few people who would say, \u2018Well I don\u2019t mind losing my office because this is too important, America\u2019s too important, our democracy is too important,&#8217;\u201d he added. \u201cWe didn\u2019t see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president said he hopes \u201cthe tides will turn\u201d but added that \u201cit doesn\u2019t happen just automatically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama went after Republicans in a CNN interview on Monday for accepting \u201cunrecognizable and unacceptable\u201d positions in their party.Obama told CNN host Anderson Cooper he thought there &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279603,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-08-at-10.48.45-AM-scaled-e1623167447518.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Obama Attacks Republicans For \u2018Unrecognizable And Unacceptable\u2019 Views, Says \u2018Dark Spirits\u2019 Have Taken Over GOP","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-08-at-10.48.45-AM-scaled-e1623167447518.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Obama Attacks Republicans For \u2018Unrecognizable And Unacceptable\u2019 Views, Says \u2018Dark Spirits\u2019 Have Taken Over GOP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}