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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Obama borrowed much of Hitler's playbook, in the 2008 campaign, (Leftist Chickens Coming Home.)
You mean the the guy whose FLOTUS was raping the taxpayers with her extravagant vacations and soirees? Obama was a financial pirate.
He’ll always be the first Kenyan born US President.
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