#TooFarLeft

Marty Johnson reports in the Hill,

The hashtag “TooFarLeft” trended on Twitter on Saturday morning, in part because of comments made Friday by former President Obama.

Obama spoke at a fundraising meeting Friday evening and warned donors of the danger of the 2020 Democratic primary field moving too far to the left.

“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality,” Obama said. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.”

The former president’s message didn’t sit well with left-leaning Democrats.

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I am old enough to remember 2008, when Obama complained about working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

At the time, his opponent for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, said Obama’s remarks were demeaning. That was before she ran in 2016 against us deplorables.