It is possible to perceive the philosophy of our current President as being akin to the nihilism of Juan Peron or of Joseph Mobutu. In the case of Peron, his public position was that he had no interest in expanding the economy of Argentina, and he did not do so. It was Peron's position that, because the means of expanding the economy were primarily "American", they were to be avoided. As long as he could maintain that American interests were evil, Argentinians would hold him in high esteem ... he had identified the source of their troubles (right or wrong), and held the Devil at bay. Joseph Mobutu maintained that Congo should make every effort to revert to the purely African culture of the "bush". Plantations, which had been highly productive, were nationalized, then left to deteriorate. In both Argentina and Congo (later named Zaire) went in to decline from which neither ever fully recovered.
Barack Hussein Obama entered the Presidency with an attitude that said that all the old traditions put in place by dead White Europeans were, because of their origins, fatally flawed, and in need of being gotten rid of. Clearly, the United States Constitution was seen as a major stumbling block.
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