Nothing Obama does needs to be explained by the fact he’s a Muslim, or some kind of foreign agent- although he could be. But the simpler and more obvious explanation is his beliefs come from Christian pacifist collectivism, in his case a Midwestern strain he got from his grandparents. (His maternal grandfather expressed it through Communism but it is the same thing.) It’s a philosophy found more in the northern tier of states, but not exclusively- Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist from Georgia, and there’s no arguing he was a secret Muslim.

Why does it surprise conservatives that this old, deep-rooted, and very American philosophy has many followers in the US? Conservatives make the mistake of thinking the US is a conservative, or even center right, country. It’s not. It’s a fairly liberal country where the people turn to conservatives only after liberals have screwed things up pretty badly.