Nah, racist cunts blew a fucking gasket at the thought of a black president. All the ones keeping it quietly in check lost the god damn minds when they were told a black man was their leader. It was very quickly made apparent after he was elected, well before he had a chance to make any sort of meaningful impact on... Anything. It's why the birther movement had so much staying power despite no evidence in favor of it and ample evidence disproving it. They desperately grasped for ANYTHING to invalidate his presidency.
Then, rich oligarchs seized on the opportunity to sow division. The Tea Party movement started just about a month after he was inaugurated, and oligarchs poured millions into it while oligarchical corporate media amplified it, and with its decentralized, loosely defined nature, adherents could ascribe whatever beliefs they wanted to it and use it as a way to oppose the dreaded black President.
