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This chapter includes a critique of President Barack Obama’s policies, including his championship of drone-targeted assassination and approach to social justice. The chapter focuses on President Obama’s “countertransference”—the author’s theory of President Obama’s role as a blank slate onto which Americans could transfer their personal desires for government, and President Obama’s use of that transference to pursue his own goals.
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Pollack, N. (2018). Master of Counterrevolution: Obama—Character and Policies. In: Capitalism, Hegemony and Violence in the Age of Drones. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64888-0_9
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