Tim Waltz is your best bet here. White man, can peel off MAGA for change but still stay "pure". We have to get past the deep south rooted haters that hate POC, women and anything not white/Christian.
Obama was the Trump of the Dem party. Now you gotta play balance, sadly.
And Walz knew that and still lost, knowing the playbook. JD "Couchlayer" Vance was a lying slime the whole debate, and Walz failed to capitalize on it.
Would also add that weird "stolen valor" kind of moment where he said he was in China during Tiananmen square massacre. That's not gonna play well pretty much anywhere.
I just saying mass adoption of the guy. Not policy of course. Hell they are talking about Obama vs Trump if he starts spitting 3rd term bullshit. So it makes sense that Obama would be looked at with the same gusto as Trump.
Now I believe that Dems would actually criticize Obama if he did stupid shit, unlike the MAGA of today with Trump.