"""<ul> <li><strong>Obama believes <a href=""""http://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/obama-memoir-promised-land/index.html"""" class=""""link rapid-noclick-resp"""" rel=""""nofollow noopener"""" target=""""_blank"""" data-ylk=""""slk:his presidency played a role in Donald Trump's rise"""">his presidency played a role in Donald Trump's rise</a> and the dark transformation of the Republican party. </strong>""""It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted,"""" he wrote. """"Which is exactly what <a class=""""link rapid-noclick-resp"""" href=""""https://www.popsugar.com/Donald-Trump"""" rel=""""nofollow noopener"""" target=""""_blank"""" data-ylk=""""slk:Donald Trump"""">Donald Trump</a> understood when he started <a href=""""https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-birther/index.html"""" class=""""link rapid-noclick-resp"""" rel=""""nofollow noopener"""" target=""""_blank"""" data-ylk=""""slk:peddling assertions"""">peddling assertions</a> that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.""""</li> <li><strong>Similarly, he says the ideological </strong><strong>shift in the Republican party can be traced back to when John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate during the 2008 campaign. </strong>""""Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party - xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks - were finding their way to center stage.""""</li> </ul>"""
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