Obama Torches Trump in Comeback Speech

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He's back.

Former President Obama is breaking his silence.

And in an incredible surprise speech, he's destroying Donald Trump for Trump's attack on our voting rights.

Former President Obama just gave a speech in front of a group made up of Texas state Democratic legislators.

And former President Obama talked about how the United States was once the envy of the world when it came to voting rights, and how it was authoritarian regimes, dictatorships across the world that would rig their elections, and how the rest of the world used to look to the United States as a shining example of the way democracy is supposed to work until Donald Trump destroyed it.

Let's see what former President Obama said.

Let's play it.

You've got countries all around the world where the elections are fixed, and whoever's in charge suppresses and makes it hard for the opposition to compete.

And we used to

be a shining example to those countries.

And people would aspire

to the kind of true democracy that America had.

And And we need to

get back to that because that's not just a Democratic or a Republican idea.

That's an American idea.

That's what we're fighting for.

In addition, former President Obama also talked about how it is so critical right now to stand up for voting rights as Republicans realize that their ideas are failing, that Americans don't like their ideas, so they have to rig the game, play this clip.

The problem that we've been seeing, not just recently, but this goes back a while,

is that the Republicans increasingly recognize their ideas won't sell.

Now, let me show you a longer portion of President Obama's speech before these Texas Democratic legislators play this clip.

But I am more grateful to you and the rest of the delegation for your sacrifice and what you've done.

And

it is important for you to understand

that

highlighting what is happening in Texas has galvanized and mobilized folks across the country.

So

I think in these kinds of battles, there's a tendency sometimes to

be frustrated because the game is a little fixed in Texas.

You know, legislative maps have been drawn in ways that

entrench one party rather than creating an even playing field.

And so sometimes there might have been a temptation to just kind of sit back and let it happen.

And I think to thanks to the leadership of people like you,

the leadership of leader Wu,

all of

the members who have you know taken this stand,

we're slowly waking people up to

the realities of what's happening right now.

And let me just say a little bit about this, and then I'll turn it over to Attorney General Holder.

Both he and I

believe that

the right way to do democracy is not to have the people who are already in office select who's going to vote for them, but have the people of America vote and select who's going to represent them.

That's right.

Yeah.

And

it would be our preference that that was done in a non-biased way, that an independent commission or some sort of neutral

approach was taken so that Democrats and Republicans compete fairly.

The lines aren't drawn to advantage one party or another,

and

the people decide

based on their ideas.

The problem that we've been seeing, not just recently, but this goes back a while,

is that the Republicans increasingly recognize their ideas won't sell.

So we've got to

fix the game a little bit.

And

by drawing maps, that splinter

Democratic voting blocks by packing in Democrats into one district so that they don't have influence in other districts.

All those things can have

an impact of weakening the impact of Democratic votes and strengthening and increasing

the influence of Republican voters.

And that's not fair.

That's not how democracy is supposed to work.

The thing that we've also come to recognize, though, and I think Eric, who's been working on this redistricting issue for almost a decade now, has what we all recognize is we can't let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by.

And so, with

because of your actions, because of your

courage,

what you've seen is

California responding, other states looking at what they can do to offset this mid-decade gerrymandering that is highly irregular and is not

what we should be doing

to balance out

the maps for this upcoming election.

And

my hope

is that rather than have a race to the bottom where every district is predetermined based on how it's drawn, that over time,

the American people, ideally with the help of the courts,

realizes that

there's a better way.

And I think that will happen, but it requires civic education.

It requires mobilization.

It requires activation of the sort that you have just described and that you guys are representative representative of

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Because,

and I'll close with this.

I think there's been a tendency, and I was born in 1961.

And just looking at the room there,

that means I might be the oldest person up in here, except for Eric Holder, who's the old, he's really old, even though he works there.

But when I think about 1961,

the Voting Rights Act hadn't yet passed.

Civil Rights Act hadn't yet passed.

March on Washington happened when I was a baby, a toddler.

And so

because of the struggles and the fights,

and because of

the courts recognizing they had a role to play in strengthening rather than weakening democracy,

our democracy got systematically stronger during my lifetime and most of the life, the lifetimes of most of the people who are in that conference room that you guys are sitting in.

The problem is, I think there's a tendency to take it for granted.

And I think we became a little bit complacent over the years.

We assumed that things would continue to get better, that our democracy would become more inclusive, that it would become more fair, that we'd make it easier for people to vote rather than harder for people to vote, that the votes would be counted rather than suppressed.

And

what we forgot is that history doesn't always move in a straight line, and it's not always two steps forward and another two steps forward.

Sometimes it's two steps forward and a step back.

And we're at a moment right now where not just gerrymandering, but efforts at voter suppression, efforts at questioning the results of elections,

efforts at

the executive branch unilaterally doing things that

bypass bypass Congress and the people's representatives,

militarization of cities,

politicization of our justice departments and

our military.

Those are trend lines that remind us

that this precious democracy that we've got is not a given.

It's not self-executing.

It requires us to fight for it.

It requires us to stand up for it.

And

so,

as tired as y'all may be a little

and missing home and

ready to

get a change of clothes because you didn't pack enough and all that,

I want all of you to be returning, feeling invigorated and

know that you have helped to lead

what is going to be a

long struggle.

It's not going to be resolved right away.

And it's going to require ultimately the American people understanding the states and realizing that we cannot take our freedoms and our democracy for granted.

You've helped set the tone for that, and I'm grateful for it.

And here is the incredible way that Obama closes this speech.

Let's play it.

And maybe one last thing I want to point out, because obviously

we're talking to Democrats,

but

the stakes that are involved right now

actually impact Republicans as well.

Yeah.

The Republican Party

started

as

a party that

was the party of Lincoln,

Illinois

Republicanism was about expanding

and protecting

the Union and democracy and perfecting.

And

when I got to Washington, when I was in the state legislature like all of you,

there were differences differences between Democrats and Republicans, but there was still the capacity to work together.

And when I got to the Senate,

there were Republicans who I disagreed with on certain issues, but there was an agreement on the rules and decorum and conduct, that there were some things that were bigger than party.

And I think there are still a bunch of Republicans out there,

voters, as well as some of your colleagues, some people in Washington,

who would like to see a return to

a sense of fairness

and a sense of independence,

where

a Republican legislature, just like a Democratic legislator, could listen to their district and the people they represent and

sometimes break with the White House and sometimes do things based on their conscience and not

try to fix the rules or rig the rules in ways that just shove through

the agenda of a narrow faction.

And

when we have fair voting rights and we have fair maps,

and we're fairly competing,

that's good for everybody, not just one side.

And that's what we should be aspiring to over the long term,

is a situation in which there are rules

that are fair for everybody, and then we compete, just like a basketball game.

We started off talking about George Gerbin.

We wouldn't want to be in a game where

If one team gets down, suddenly they get to change the rules.

Suddenly, their baskets count for four points, and yours only count for two.

You won't want to be in a basketball game where

the other team starts to lose, and suddenly they want to fire the ref

and put in their own cousin

to referee the game.

And so

the beauty of our democracy, just like

any other

system we build,

is when

we protect the integrity of the process.

And that's what's at stake here is the integrity of the process.

And

when you have a process that has integrity, when you have a democracy that has integrity,

then sometimes you may lose an issue.

Sometimes you may lose a vote.

Sometimes

the other side wins an election.

And

they do some things that you don't like, but you know, because it's fair, if you can persuade the people next time,

then you can take the country in a better direction.

That's what we need.

That's what this country stands for.

That's why it's been the envy of the world.

You've got countries all around the world where the elections are fixed.

And whoever's in charge suppresses and makes it hard for the the opposition to compete.

And we used to

be a shining example to those countries.

And people would aspire

to the kind of true democracy that America has.

And we need to

get back to that.

Because that's not just a Democratic or a Republican idea.

That's an American idea.

That's what we're fighting for.

All right.

I love y'all.

Okay, powerful words there by former President Obama.

Tell me what you think.

I'd like to see more speeches by him, if I'm being honest.

I'd like to see him out there more because every time he speaks, it's so on point.

It's so inspiring.

Let me know what you think.

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