• @pingveno
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    22 years ago

    Yeah, “Hope” was a campaign slogan. Trump also isn’t going to bring the US back to some mythical “Great” time (MAGA). The presidency in the US has a lot less power than many people believe. To make monumental changes, there first must be 60 votes in the Senate, which under the current environment means the president’s party controlling 60 seats in the Senate. Obama had that for just a few months, which gave us the Affordable Care Act (ACA aka Obamacare). It’s not the reform that many would have preferred, but it brought some critical improvements. The Medicaid expansion brought millions of uninsured people under insurance. Preexisting conditions were erased as a barrier to people who needed care. And the subsidies have proven to be vital.

    There is also what didn’t happen. He didn’t appoint a conservative justice to replace the outgoing Justice Souter or Stevens. That of course didn’t take work, but if a Republican had been elected in 2008 then that could have turned out different. He also came into office with the knowledge that he had pledged to get the US out of Iraq. That seems to have followed him to other conflicts. While Obama did get the US involved in conflicts, especially in brewing civil wars related to the Arab Spring, he didn’t truly go all out on an invasion. I’m not sure I would have expected the same of McCain.

    • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
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      12 years ago

      Trump also isn’t going to bring the US back to some mythical “Great” time (MAGA)

      He did make the kkk/nazis mainstream again which i think is what like half of his supporters wanted. Not mainstream enough to kill hobos or blacks in the street, so i guess his supporters are still disappointed