The MAGAs Are Now Amusing Themselves With Homophobic Smears of Barack Obama Based on Forty-Year-Old Letters

As the Trumpists keep spelunking the moral abyss their indicted leader trailblazed for them, the problem they face is that even if any of their smears mattered—which they don’t—none are remotely true.

ABOVE: Some of the letters a young Barack Obama sent to his ex-girlfriend Alexandra McNear in the early 1980s, when he was a college undergraduate.

Introduction

Just a few years before proposing marriage to a woman—pre-Michelle Robinson—in 1986, a young Barack Obama spent about a year and a half, or between the ages of 21 (1982) and 23 (1984), correspondi…