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Barack Obama

LoganOneNation

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1. Obama's Legacy is a dangerous centrism that gave us Trump

Reply to Jnew28 (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:02 AM

Dec 2016

His main achievement is passing THE WORST version of healthcare reform imaginable and allowing the Democrats to take all the blame for a plan cooked up by Republicans who then ran against it to win more seats and governorships than at any time in modern history.
He bought into and embraced austerity and reduced the deficit at the expense of economic growth.
He made the Bush Tax cuts permanent for some of the richest people on earth.
He tried to push TPP down our throats.
All these moves gave us Trump who will now erase the little good his paltry neoliberal legacy brought us.

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