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by spencerflem 372 days ago
No I'm saying he's about as left wing Reagan.

He ran on a "change" platform but failed to deliver change. He propped up the rich and shot down any sort of possible ideas that would meaningfully change anything despite being given once in a generation mandate.

It dissolutioned a lot of voters, and lead to where we are now where people are desperate enough to want a strongman outsider who promises to really shake things up.

If we had gotten an actual progressive instead of a textbook neoliberal things might have been different.

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For how long did they control congress under Obama?