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Obama’s Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed
New York Magazine ^ | May 18, 2018 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 05/23/2018 9:18:50 AM PDT by re_tail20

In one respect, it seems to me, the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful. In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama’s two-term legacy.

I don’t want to say or face this. I still want to believe my colleague, Jonathan Chait, whose thesis is that the changes Obama made in his difficult but tenacious eight years in office are too great to reverse. And there are a couple of shifts that do indeed seem to be as permanent as anything is in politics: marriage equality and legal cannabis. But neither, one recalls, was a signature goal of Obama. He began as an alleged opponent of marriage equality, even though, of course, he was bullshitting. He wouldn’t touch the marijuana issue in his entire term and even at one point dismissed it as trivial. As for the rest, in specific policy terms, Trump and the Republican Congress have succeeded in undoing Obama’s work to an extent I barely anticipated.

In economic policy, Obama’s slow winnowing of the deficit even in times of sluggish growth has been completely reversed. We too easily forget that the biggest accomplishment of Trump’s term in office so far — a massive increase in debt in a time of robust economic growth — is the inverse of Obama’s studied sense of fiscal responsibility. Nothing in modern fiscal history can match Trump’s recklessness — neither Reagan’s leap of faith nor George W. Bush’s profligacy — and it’s telling that the Democrats and the liberal intelligentsia have accommodated so swiftly to it. Nothing is so unfashionable right now as worrying about debt.

The fiscal vandalism is also a massive U-turn in terms of redistribution. If Obama managed to shift resources, ever so incrementally, toward the middle class and the poor (by allowing Bush’s tax cuts for...

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1 posted on 05/23/2018 9:18:50 AM PDT by re_tail20
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No...GAY MARRIAGE....GAY EVETRYTHING is his legacy!


2 posted on 05/23/2018 9:19:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: re_tail20

You can erase Obama’s legacy by flushing the toilet.


3 posted on 05/23/2018 9:20:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: re_tail20

“Obama’s studied sense of fiscal responsibility”

yeah, all $10 TRILLION of it


4 posted on 05/23/2018 9:23:02 AM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: re_tail20
....."he has effectively erased Barack Obama’s two-term legacy".......


5 posted on 05/23/2018 9:23:12 AM PDT by caww
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To: Ann Archy

Well, there’s always Big Mike’s jock strap ...


6 posted on 05/23/2018 9:23:40 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: re_tail20
In one respect, it seems to me, the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful. In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama’s two-term legacy.

It is good to start your day with uplifting news.
7 posted on 05/23/2018 9:24:01 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Here’s to hoping that’s poison ivy...


8 posted on 05/23/2018 9:24:47 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: re_tail20

Amazing someone actually wrote this.


9 posted on 05/23/2018 9:26:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Obamacare is still a problem.


10 posted on 05/23/2018 9:26:21 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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11 posted on 05/23/2018 9:26:55 AM PDT by caww
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To: re_tail20

In order to destroy something, it must exist and Barry has no legacy to destroy.


12 posted on 05/23/2018 9:29:02 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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13 posted on 05/23/2018 9:30:24 AM PDT by caww
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Well, there’s always Big Mike’s jock strap


Is that Michelle, nee Mike, you are referring to?


14 posted on 05/23/2018 9:31:42 AM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: re_tail20
is the inverse of Obama’s studied sense of fiscal responsibility.

Ahahahahahahahahaha.

Bagster

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15 posted on 05/23/2018 9:32:08 AM PDT by bagster ("I love ideas.")
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16 posted on 05/23/2018 9:32:31 AM PDT by caww
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To: re_tail20
. . . a couple of shifts that do indeed seem to be as permanent as anything is in politics: marriage equality and legal cannabis

Obama's legacy: the normalization of sodomy and drug abuse. Today's Dem platform: Sex and Drugs

17 posted on 05/23/2018 9:32:59 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: caww
President Trump in a little over one year as President, has been effectively erasing Obummer's 2 term legacy of theft from working Americans.


18 posted on 05/23/2018 9:33:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: re_tail20

A progressive crows about the excesses of progressivism ... who knew?


19 posted on 05/23/2018 9:34:08 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PMAS
“Obama’s studied sense of fiscal responsibility”

yeah, all $10 TRILLION of it

I can't believe he typed this with a straight face.

Liberalism truly is a mental disorder. The delusion is that thick.

20 posted on 05/23/2018 9:35:17 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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