“This is a big f***ing deal,” his incompetent Comic Sidekick said as he signed Obamacare into law. What the “this” was didn’t matter then, as it scarcely matters now.

What counted was that the Hero had won.

Politics is now a MacGuffin in American politics, at least for the frothing fanbois of the Hero Barack Obama.

It doesn’t matter what his goals actually are — it only matters that he succeeds in those quests, whatever they might be.

And this isn’t a new phenomenon, either. Since the beginning of this movie, the fanbois have cared very little for MacGuffins (notice they don’t care how many thousands of Americans have died in Afghanistan), but have been intensely interested in the Hero’s emotional response to it all.

You root for the Hero to win because you like the Hero — not because you’re particularly invested in the Hero’s actual goals. And you despise the Villains simply because they’re standing in the way of the Hero’s triumph.