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The last time a non-change candidate won a presidential election in the US was 2004. No president since Obama has had enough of a majority in congress to enact meaningful change, and it was squandered. It's not entirely his fault, but as the leader of the democrats at the time he takes the plurality of responsibility. The ACA started off as an change that could have fixed healthcare in the US but got watered down into propping up a fundamentally broken system.
Trying to deflect a politicians legitimate failures as racism or sexism is so Democrat it hurts.
This is a bullshit talking point.
Obama was full of shit. Fuck neoliberals
Leaders move masses. Look at Lincoln, look at either Roosevelt (who didn't even come from the working class). They had a vision and they pulled the country towards that vision. I refuse to believe that out of 350million of us there aren't a couple people capable of being real leaders. 'we don't have the votes' - so get them. Bernie Sanders was polling at less than 1% when he entered the race against Clinton, and he nearly beat her by building a movement. The reason they don't have the votes is because they don't want them. They don't actually believe in progressive policies.
He should have ripped heaven from earth for that supreme court seat.
Less infighting and more pushing things forward would have been great too. Playing for reelection is a loosing position; I want to see more aggression with policy change.