Comment by arp242

> Even Obama failed to deliver to the American people. He was too focused on drone strikes.

I agree how Obama continued Bush's "war on terror" was a disappointment, but to state that as the reason for his relatively limited accomplishments is profoundly unserious. The Mitch McConnell's strategy was to do anything Obama did for no other reason than to make him look bad, because McConnell realised that Obama had the potential to be the most consequential president since FDR, with broad public support.

They used every trick in the book to hold up votes, to not schedule votes, voting against popular policy they themselves supported just a few years ago out of principle, etc.

I don't know how anyone could have forgotten this; the Republican party was not serious good faith participant in the democratic process long before Trump came along.