In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
It’s true that there’s no journalism but we would easily see Obama’s mark in actual policy. And there’s none. I was very worried about a possibility of Obama’s “third presidency” with Biden’s election but there’s zero evidence. Obama himself is not capable of such stunning growth that he’d abandon all his pet obsessions and go in a completely new direction on pretty much everything.