The category Obama fits best is what scholars call the "adversary culture." Coined by literary critic Lionel Trilling, the term describes intellectuals and artists who feel alienated from Western society and hostile to its fundamental features.
The adversary culture took root in the 19th century when an avant-garde began to define themselves by defiance of established norms. They castigated the bourgeoisie as philistines caring only about material profit. They denounced the growing capitalist class as vulgar money-grubbers.
Interesting but it reminds me of the arm chair shrinks and their juvenile psych interpretation of Daddy Bush and baby Bush, better left to historians with perspective.
