"The elites loved him because he’s one of us."
That's the problem with dysfunctional American undemocracy, rigged  economy, and  classist racist social system - Obama and his wife are Harvard lawyers pretending to be progressives. Obama was beholden to Wall Street since he was a Senator. The media made Obama for the illusion of change; but the establishment does not want progressive change. It wants elitist business as usual, which is exactly what Obama delivered.
  Americans like Obama as a cool, classy black man who doesn't make them feel guilty about racism, poverty, classism, war, American imperialism, the culture of gun violence, police occupation of inner cities, American exceptionalism.
   He's much like Jimmy Carter. After the Vietnam War, folks invested much hope in President Carter for big progressive changes, but Carter, like Obama failed to deliver. That's the way the American system is rigged.
   One more failure - Obama should have endorsed progressive Bernie Sanders.