But picking one specific even to try to define an administration isn’t very helpful. By your same measure you could define Carter as a right wing extremist for overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1979.
I’ve never understood that argument. He used some words that evoked the feeling of progressivism. But at no point did he actually say he was progressive or present a progressive vision. He was always slightly left of center, and very clearly ran as that, while having a campaign that appealed broadly. I honestly think people took “hope”, " change" and first black president and just assumed it.
I challenge you to find even one piece of Obama campaign lit that actually presented him as a progressive.
Both Republicans and Democrats would run to the center for success. Bush Senior and Bush Junior were also centrist. It wasn’t just a Democrat thing.
Wait the guy who waged an illegal war against an innocent country for oil was a centrist?
Compared to trump? Absolutely.
But picking one specific even to try to define an administration isn’t very helpful. By your same measure you could define Carter as a right wing extremist for overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1979.
Jimmy Carter, such a grifter and warhawk!
/s
The bar for presidents is quite low.
Turns out politics wasn’t the game, it was limbo all along.
Obama won because he succesfully claimed to be a progressive
I’ve never understood that argument. He used some words that evoked the feeling of progressivism. But at no point did he actually say he was progressive or present a progressive vision. He was always slightly left of center, and very clearly ran as that, while having a campaign that appealed broadly. I honestly think people took “hope”, " change" and first black president and just assumed it.
I challenge you to find even one piece of Obama campaign lit that actually presented him as a progressive.