The Search for the next Obama

[Del Tachi]

No, just like there won't be another Reagan or Kennedy. You only get an iconic/consequential POTUS every 30 years or so.

So, why havent we had a consequential president yet?

20 years after FDR, we got LBJ, 20 years later we got Reagan.

Yet no president since than has caused immense change

Trump, lol

Trump was not more consequential than Obama lol. Supreme Court justices are his main achievement and that's pretty indirect. He largely failed legislatively.

Trump is a change agent who has fundamentally altered how presidents in the future will relate to the media/public.  He did for social media what Reagan did for television.  That will outlive any possible legislative achievement

[dw93]

No, just like there won't be another Reagan or Kennedy. You only get an iconic/consequential POTUS every 30 years or so.

So, why havent we had a consequential president yet?

20 years after FDR, we got LBJ, 20 years later we got Reagan.

Yet no president since than has caused immense change

Trump, lol

Trump was not more consequential than Obama lol. Supreme Court justices are his main achievement and that's pretty indirect. He largely failed legislatively.

Those court justices could be consequential though. Time will tell. That said, of all the post Reagan Presidents, George W. Bush (His Foreign Policy is still largely in tact almost 12 years after he left office) and Obama (Healthcare, First black President, VP got elected President) were the most consequential.

[Motorcity]

George W. Bush (His Foreign Policy is still largely in tact almost 12 years after he left office)

What? George W. Bush foreign policy is dead

The US is no longer respected or a world leader. Neither side of the political spectrum is remotely interested in regime change or foreign wars.

The US ignored Assad dumping chemical weapons on kids. The US has also accepted North Korea as an equal and is deathly afraid (rightly) of the consequences of a war with Iran.

The post cold war policy of the Bush family and Clintons of the US being the world's policeman is dead.

[Oregon Eagle Politics]

Obama was a bad President. "Change We Can Beleive in" yet no change except enacting republican healthcare/foreign policy/economic plans with f****** 60 senate seats and 257 f****** house seats.

We need someone better.