Board 8 > Who Was The Greatest American Politician of the 2010s?

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Vote away!

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In terms of success electorally, in terms of policy implementation, and in terms of global recognition its Obama. The sad fact is his ambitions were always much smaller than people, especially his opponents, claimed, and he was a centre-right politician in a country so right wing that that made him seem like a raging leftist.

Shout-out to Bernie for getting more people engaged and being the first to go its stupid that the USs left is more right wing than most countries right. That will have big impacts in the future.

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Center right? What would he have to have done for you to consider him left wing?

How anyone can not say Cocaine Mitch is beyond me. Dude single-handedly achieved the #1 priority for conservatism over the past 40 years.

Bring key industries and services into public control, either through the state or more collective means. Thats kind of an essential one to qualify as left wing! Not even Bernie Sanders supports that but its dogma among the left in the rest of the world.

But even to be centre or centre-left, he didnt do enough on things like taxation or public services and welfare to qualify. He repealed oil and gas exploration bans, extended older tax cuts, and froze public sector pay. It was a right wing economic programme. He was a pretty standard liberal at the end of the day, neoliberal economics plus some gradual social liberalism.

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