Originally posted by Reverend Jones:
To be fair to the Democrats, don't they have to contend with a sizable political opponent in the legislature? It's apparently hard to pass laws in the US if one party is dead against it.
I'm sympathetic to the point of view that Obama had to face an intransigent Republican majority congress from 2010 onward, but only to an extent. On many issues, he acted like he had absolutely no leverage over his political opponents, and the result has been that, because most his achievements did not pass through the legislature, it's been incredibly easy for Trump to unwind them.
I mean, look at the triumphalism of this letter:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/323681

For "the next generation"? lol