• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    2 天前

    Its the same american goldfish memory that lead us to trump 2.0. People forget how inneffective Obama was at fighting right wing narratives and how inneffective he was at pushing for the policies he campaigned on.

    Over time people’s memories of Obama have been more nostalgia for the times rather than an honest assessment of his actions. People forget that if he had given half the effort to shutting down guantamano bay that trump has to destroying the department of education we’d be looking at a very different calculus of executive power.

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      Over time people’s memories of Obama have been more nostalgia for the times rather than an honest assessment of his actions.

      Hell, at this point I’ve seen people being kind of nostalgic even about Bush…