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Former president barack obama and his new book former white house adviser ben rhodes details the former president's reaction, quote, what if we were wrong? maybe we pushed too far, mr. obama said. maybe people just want to fall back into a tribe. according to "the new york times" which got an early copy of the book. the president called mr. trump a quote, cartoon figure who cared more about his crowd sizes than any particular policy and he expressed rare self-doubt wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on american history. he then wondered whether he was 10 or 20 years too early...

>> eugene, it may be why you have a pulitzer prize. but you write very thought provoking columns. president trump's most urgent political problem doesn't involve robert s. mueller iii, stormy daniels or the hundreds of voters who marched for gun control. it's that his die hard supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers. defend your thesis. >> well, after the president signed the spending bill on friday, which does not fund the massive big beautiful border wall that he planned to build but does fund planned parenthood. some of the loudest and most caus...

Supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers. defend your thesis. >> well, there was -- after the president signed the spending bill on friday, which does not fund the massive, big, beautiful border wall that he planned to build, but does fund planned parenthood. among other democratic priorities. some of the loudest and most caustic voices on the far right lit up and started to light him up, i believe it was ann coulter who tweeted congratulations president schumer. these are voices that the trump base listens to. you know, he has talked a big game. bu...

Played them for suckers. defend your thesis. >> well, after the president signed the spending bill on friday, which does not fund the massive big beautiful border wall that he planned to build but does fund planned parenthood. some of the loudest and most caustic voices on the far right lit up and started to light him up, i believe it was ann coulter who tweeted congratulations president schumer. these are voices that the trump base listens to. you know, he has talked a big game. but on this issue on which he has connected so viscerally with

Us. >> another clue to the success of the magazine was that unlike "m.a.d. magazine," all the artwork was done very intentionally to replicate whatever was being parodied. and that was a big difference counteulture prior to .he >> the 1970s were a fertile time for humor and you people were bitter, caustic, smutty, dirty, funny and -- >> drunk. >> drunk. and largely outrageous. >> the hopes of the '60s had given way to the frustrations of the '70s. the vietnam war was obviously lost. the civil rights movement had won and the argument was over, but of course it wasn't. >> the craziness of that p...