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From the liberals perspective, Obama pushed through a center-right (progressive Republican?) healthcare program for his sole victory. He then saw same continuously attacked after losing Congress. He stabilized a collapsing economic system pleasing almost no-one. The culture war dunk was style not substance. Obama said nice things about previously shunned people but in the end lost the Supreme Court for a generation. As soon as he left, the Ryan/Trump tax victory made sure we'd never pay down his and W's bills creating a benefits cutting imperative threatening Social Security etc.. So style wise yeah the GOP had to look at a black woman's shoulders for eight years but our judicial branch remains firmly in the hands of right wing culture warriors. The only reason the "Deep State" also known as the Executive Branch isn't hammering through major right wing regulatory changes is that Trump didn't actually have sensible ideas and was too stupid to put a transition team in place two years ago. The professionals are still doing their jobs following Obama era directives absent actual leadership.