Restrained, respectful, mature and calm where Donald Trump is impulsive, offensive, narcissistic and childish, his successor compares unfavourably and made many nostalgic even before Obama left the White House. Obama was eloquent, cosmopolitan, nuanced and consensual where George W Bush was monosyllabic, parochial, brash and divisive: his presidential predecessor highlighted Obama’s strengths and made many people hopeful, even before he’d done anything. In the general election that year, Obama’s Republican opponent had been forced to pull out after his divorce papers alleged that he’d tried to pressure his former wife to go to clubs where people had sex in public. During his first senatorial campaign in 2004 Obama’s most feared and better-funded Democratic party rival imploded shortly before polling day after unsealed divorce papers revealed accusations of verbal and physical spousal abuse.
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