The two books that more than any others explain the Obama administration are:
Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom."
The latter discusses how socialist, statist and "social democratic" countries lose representative government and become dictatorships as the government uses its monopolization of resources to take jobs and educational and other opportunities away from anyone who criticizes the party in power or even just the current administration.
It is clear that the Obama "progressives" have no understanding or allegiance to civil liberties or real liberalism.