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Jiang frames the 2008 crisis as a rigged Ivy League and Wall Street system that Obama promised to change but ultimately protected through elite economic appointments.
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Key Notes
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Jiang claims Trump’s rise follows from anger at Obama’s failed hope-and-change promise and even from Obama humiliating Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
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Obama is Jiang’s closing example of the elite actor: promising hope and change, then dropping the promise once in power and returning to it only when electorally useful.
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Jiang argues that older Black voters supported Biden in 2020 partly from loyalty to Obama's vice president, but that by 2024 the debt has been paid and Biden must answer what he has done for them.
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The speaker describes Obama's Asia Pivot as a plan to move U.S. military resources from the Middle East to East Asia in response to China's rise.
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The speaker argues that the Iran Nuclear Deal scared Saudi Arabia because U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East and rapprochement with Iran would leave Saudi Arabia vulnerable.
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Dave says Obama made the imperial presidency naked by treating the global war on terrorism as everywhere and authorizing strikes anywhere without congressional authorization.
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Jiang argues many Obama-to-Trump voters were not simply racist but felt betrayed by Obama after the Wall Street bailout and losses among ordinary Americans, including Black homeowners.
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"...total control and this came right on the heels of the obama administration which had essentially the obama doctrine was what really made the..."
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"even bothered never even bothered and like that stuff these are major groundbreaking precedents they should not be you know in in today's world..."
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"...a lot of American people felt that they were betrayed by Obama. I mean, remember, you have this huge contingent of voters, especially in..."
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"And his son won because of the Supreme Court. Right? So I think Senator Dale O 'Connor was the deciding vote. And, you know,..."
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"...continued. Okay? Right? So you could. And then who comes next? Obama. I'm not sure if you know anything about Obama. But his family..."
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"...Clinton removed the left working class objections to this regime. Then Obama was able to. Like, remove the liberal objections. Right? Because remember. It's..."
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"...politicians are not just manufacturers, right? So look at someone like Obama, JD Vance. They're all curated. They've all been created. They've all been..."
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"...people. You know, most people don't understand this, but, you know, Obama was the first black president, but whole ownership among Afro -Americans declined..."
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"...Trump runs as the vice president for the Republican Party and Obama runs as the vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. It doesn't..."
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"...number of deportation under Trump is still lower than that under Obama. So what's ICE for? And some people have speculated that ICE is..."
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"...democracy for a long time, ever since 2008 financial crisis. When Obama bailed out the oligarchs and screwed over the people, and then you..."
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"...Trump runs as the vice president for the Republican Party, and Obama runs the vice vice vice presidential"
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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