“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”
The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”
Obama was fundamentally a centrist who enabled just about every one of our worst impulses as a country.
Endless war? Murdering thousands of innocent civilians in the middle east? Massive deportation? Deregulation for big corporations? Massive bailouts on the taxpayer dime?
Oh sorry the supreme court set the precedent with gay marriage and that half baked compromise cooked up by the heritage foundation as an alternative to single payer healthcare with the Affordable Care Act happened so I guess him being a piece of shit and a massive opportunistic liar doesn’t matter.
Except “centrist” has meant solidly right, for decades.