Gotta hand it to Obama - he was relentless in his pursuit of stacking every nook and cranny of American officialdom with hard core Leftist and nobody has been more creative at funding them with taxpayer money to enable their fundamental changing of America.
It goes back much further than Obama. By the time he got there, most of the work was done.
The Left has always understood patronage and using government to benefit their supporters and build their power base.
The Brain dead Repub “conservatives” see it as a mark of political virtue to penalize and take away things from their own supporters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUNVwRhAlC8