2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Why won’t Obama voters `break up’ with him?" by Greg Sargent at WP [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)Presidents are NOT kings. He can't just order most things to happen. He doesn't even write legislation. The legislative process is very complex; the process itself involves hundreds even thousands of people; in any given piece of legislation hundreds of details play play off against other details and different bills are negotiated relative to one another; timing and less directly related contextual factors affect how many decisions are made by many different people.
And that's just the obvious stuff.
I get very impatient with what appears to be so many people, many of whom haven't paid very much attention to any of this for a very long time, if not most of their lives, just delivering these summary judgements without the least consideration for the thousands and thousands of things that they don't know.