• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Good point, he promised to close it when he was campaigning, but he just couldn’t do it for some reason once he was in office.

    Obama won overwhelmingly by campaigning as a progressive, then governed as a centrist, and 8 years later, voters abandoned the party. Somehow, the establishment’s takeaway from that was, “we need to be less progressive.”