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 Obamas two-term legacy.
I dont 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 wouldnt 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 Obamas work to an extent I barely anticipated.
In economic policy, Obamas slow winnowing of the deficit even in times of sluggish growth has been completely reversed. We too easily forget that the biggest accomplishment of Trumps term in office so far a massive increase in debt in a time of robust economic growth is the inverse of Obamas studied sense of fiscal responsibility. Nothing in modern fiscal history can match Trumps recklessness neither Reagans leap of faith nor George W. Bushs profligacy and its 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 Bushs tax cuts for...
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Well, his stated goal as two-term president was to fundamentally transform (destroy) the United States of America. Was the destruction he caused permanent or temporary? His “legacy” depends on the answer to this question.
>> ...Obamas studied sense of fiscal responsibility...<<
This is an example of modern “journalism”.
BTW ... notice they’re no longer even trying to hide that Obamaharm isn’t about providing insurance but about wealth redistribution?
Recall that it was similar “journalism” the Left used to convince many people the Democrats could be less spendthrift under W ... and then the Democrats showed us what REAL spendthrift was like!
Husseins legacy wont be destroyed, only diminished. Many entitled Americans miss him and his hopey changey feely stuff. And a great many Afro-Americans are still hoping for reparation$.
The scars Hussein left on America will fade but remain. The cancer he fed in our federal departments remains festering. One hopes he will be criminally charged and prosecuted one day.
Dont be misled folks, this is not a pro Trump / the Right commentary.
It trashes Trump for abandoning all things Leftist.
The writer is an intellectual seventh grade level giant in his own mind, exclusively. Third grade is more accurate.
The one in the middle looks like she’s smiling. I think she’s NOT GUILTY.
Obama who?
Oh he HAS a legacy alright.
He has one, it’s just not a positive one.
That, plus cop killing, open borders, an FBI and CIA used for partisan political purposes, an entitled ruling class and a swamp which has barely been drained yet, just to name a few more fruits of BO’s legacy.
I actually had to read that twice because I couldn’t believe he wrote that
yep
They look a bit young, so if my speculation is correct, they will get jobs in this booming Trump Economy, and not even know how he helped them. In the fog of the unknown they are...
Erasing the stain of Hussein was why we elected President Trump. See everything Obama did? Do the exact opposite.
And he has! MAGA!
Legalized cannabis in a handful of states.
What an accomplishment! Wow!
Is Obama the best President ever or what?! /s
He and his ilk just transferred their propaganda to Netflix.
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