2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Holes in Clinton's climate plan: no stand on Keystone, fracking, oil exports & Arctic ocean drilling [View all]BainsBane
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Opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba for the first time since the Revolution
A nuclear treaty with Iran instead of refusing to have dialog
The only national healthcare bill to be passed in the history of this country, something presidents since Teddy Roosevelt have wanted done.
Wide-scale pardons of non-violent drug offenders and proposals to reform sentencing. Actual legislation passed that lessened disparity between sentencing for crack and other drugs.
Vigorous protection of voting rights
Extension of Title IX to cover rape victims, establishing rape as a civil rights issue
The Lilly Ledbetter Act for equal pay for equal work
A come back from economic meltdown and dramatic improvement in hiring and unemployment to pre-crisis levels.
And many other successes.
You have had far more than "smooth talking." What you have not had is the restoration of the white upper-middle and middle class back to what it sees as its rightful place atop the capitalist world order.