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In reply to the discussion: Biting political analysis of the McCain funeral from Jeet Heer: [View all]Chemisse
(30,804 posts)Part of that was letting go of all the crises and corruption created under the previous administration. He could hardly go forward with bipartisanship when he rankled the GOP establishment by investigating the Iraq War and prosecuting bankers.
Of course there was not a prayer of bipartisanship to begin with, and he realized that eventually. He made a lot of mistakes in his first year to 18 months. Whether that led to the fissure in the Democratic Party, I have no idea. I think we were ALL angry at him early on. Perhaps the fracture began over health care. Most of us would have preferred single payer. Some of us accepted what we got (which I saw as a fairly painless move toward single payer, with the Medicaid expansion and the hope of more in the future) and some never forgave him for that.