• afronaut@slrpnk.net
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      14 days ago

      It’s one thing to claim racist bigots voted for Trump as a retaliation to the Obama administration. It’s another thing to claim it’s Obama’s fault that we got Trump.

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        14 days ago

        I don’t think that’s the argument being made. I can’t speak for OP but, Obama was objectively a mediocre president.

        He was a wall street loving centrist democratic politician.

        He campaigned on change and then he bailed out the big banks when the shit hit the fan. Sure, he had some redeeming policies. (ACA and such)

        However, this does not detract from the fact that he created no tangible change to the status quo. His shortcomings led directly to the rise of the same rightwing populism that’s decimating government institutions today.