• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      He also could have forced through single-payer healthcare if he wanted, the ACA is a watered down, conservative-designed alternative. There were many ways that Obama established a set-in precedent for Democrats basically becoming the modern conservative party as the Republicans pushed so far right without actual political or cultural opposition that they threw the overton window out into the fucking sea.