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The hilarious thing is that Democrats are now favored to take the Senate. If you had told me that in February I would have laughed in your face.
Well, since February, the worst public health crisis in a century has hit the entire world, crashing the economy that was the centerpiece of Trump's reelection pitch, exposing his incompetence in running an administration, raising the salience of the issue of healthcare, which is quite literally the worst policy issue for Republicans, covering the glaring weaknesses of his challenger and preventing him from holding his rallies and taking advantage of being a much more energetic and charismatic campaigner.
Covid was already a
quintuple whammy for Trump even before he bungled the response.
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Obama was a political novice for over half of his first term. I think it would have been better if he lost in 2008 to Hillary so that he could learn the ropes.
This is a good point I've made before as well: it would have been better for everyone if Hillary had won the Dem primaries in 2008. She would have run an administration at least as efficient as Obama's and pursued largely the same policies without serving as a catalyst for liberal and conservative identity politics. She would imho have lost in 2012 to some conventional Republican, and then in 2016 or 2020, a more experienced and matured Obama could have taken over and been a much better president than he was in 2008-16.
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Obama abused power worse. And the supreme court wasnt courageous enough to stand up to Obama.
They stood up to him in A LOT of ways. Roberts prevented abuse of the commerce clause which is really important. He also kept voting rates for the states, they slammed him on his abuse of recess appointments, etc. We got a lot of religious liberties back as well. We also got DC vs. Heller which was HUGE. I think we should count our blessings.
DC v. Heller was decided in the summer of 2008, months before Obama's inauguration.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 24 2020 09:43pm