WHEN AMERICA’S FIRST RED DIAPER BABY PRESIDENT IS NO LONGER RED ENOUGH: 2020 Dems Love Obama, Hate Obama’s Policies.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week put numbers on what has long been a visceral cultural nostalgia for the 44th presidency. Ninety percent of Democrats hold a favorable view of Barack Obama today, compared with just 4% unfavorable (Bill Clinton, by contrast, is at 64/15). Sixty-nine percent hold a “very positive” view of Obama, up 8 percentage points over 2015. Most relevant, 78% say they are “satisfied” that the previous occupant of the White House “did as much as was possible at the time in addressing issues facing the country.”

So why, then, on issue after issue, are the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders staking out positions far to the left of anything Obama ever imagined — even while attempting to bask in his holy glow?

I’m not sure which, but it seems like there are two main possibilities. Either today’s Dems are convinced they can’t beat Trump and are letting their freak flags fly, or they think they can’t lose and see a once-in-a-lifetime chance to implement the far-left agenda Obama would have if he could have.