Obama’s Policies and Broader Vision Face Reckoning With History | Chris Salamone
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As he raced across the country before the election, President Obamawarned supporters about the stakes. “All the progress we’ve made over these last eight years,” he said, “goes out the window if we don’t win this election.”
Indeed, Mr. Trump’s election imperils many of Mr. Obama policies, notably the health care law that has extended coverage to 20 million Americans but aggravated others who resented government intrusion and rising premiums. Mr. Trump has promised to scrap Mr. Obama’sinternational climate change agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnershiptrade pact, renegotiate his Iran nuclear deal, dismantle Dodd-Frankregulations on Wall Street and reverse orders sparing millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
Still, after two midterm defeats, this was the third time since taking office that voters rejected Mr. Obama’s advice. He campaigned all outfor Mrs. Clinton as no departing incumbent has in modern times, only to relearn the lesson that presidents cannot transfer popularity.
Mr. Obama accepts only so much responsibility for that, faulting Republican obstructionism. He points to his early days in office, when he was heading to Capitol Hill to discuss the economic crisis only to hear that RepresentativeJohn A. Boehner, the top House Republican, had already rejected the new president’s stimulus package out of hand.
Obama’s Policies and Broader Vision Face Reckoning With History | Chris Salamone
← Reactions to President-Elect Trump, From Vladimir Putin to Gloria Steinem
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As he raced across the country before the election, President Obamawarned supporters about the stakes. “All the progress we’ve made over these last eight years,” he said, “goes out the window if we don’t win this election.”
Indeed, Mr. Trump’s election imperils many of Mr. Obama policies, notably the health care law that has extended coverage to 20 million Americans but aggravated others who resented government intrusion and rising premiums. Mr. Trump has promised to scrap Mr. Obama’sinternational climate change agreement and Trans-P
acific Partnershiptrade pact, renegotiate his Iran nuclear deal, dismantle Dodd-Frankregulations on Wall Street and reverse orders sparing millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
Still, after two midterm defeats, this was the third time since taking office that voters rejected Mr. Obama’s advice. He campaigned all outfor Mrs. Clinton as no departing incumbent has in modern times, only to relearn the lesson that presidents cannot transfer popularity.
Mr. Obama accepts only so much responsibility for that, faulting Republican obstructionism. He points to his early days in office, when he was heading to Capitol Hill to discuss the economic crisis only to hear that RepresentativeJohn A. Boehner, the top House Republican, had already rejected the new president’s stimulus package out of hand.