What did Obama do that "fermented discontent" so much so that the public became more amenable to electing Trump? As I see it, the Republicans got hyper-reactionary almost entirely because of President Obama's election and ran hard and poured in lots of money against him and Democrats for 8 years and, except for 2012, Democrats and progressives mostly stayed home and didn't vote (for whatever reasons), ceding control of Statehouses and Congress to Republicans and helping lock in control (esp. with 2010 midterms). I'm somewhat unclear about what else the Democrats need to do to be successful in 2018 and 2020. Nobody is certainly happy with the status quo at the moment because Trump has so dramatically shattered norms and put our country in a position we've never really been in before. At the moment, I would think that putting anybody in power promising a return to an Obama competence-level governance should be a welcome relief, especially for Trump voters with buyer's remorse. Democrats and progressives also need to, you know, vote if they want to stand any chance of winning again. We have to keep our voters voting every.single.election and we can't always run an Obama. 
Edit history
Recommendations
0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
= new reply since forum marked as read