Derrick Wilburn asks: what will be the legacy of Barack
Obama’s presidency? Obama is leaving behind a mess. A train wreck. An utter
disaster. But fifty years from now, what will his presidency be remembered for?
Workers’ share of the economy, median
family income, home ownership and labor-force participation are all down.
Health insurance costs, student loans, food stamps, money printing and federal
debt are all up.
The numbers and ways this president has
failed are numerous. Feckless foreign policy leading to a complete and total
meltdown in the middle-east; more debt added than the previous 43 presidents
combined; civil unrest resulting in ten riots,
more than one per year, during his tenure; citizens hunting (and killing)
police in the streets; lies told in order to pass a piece of legislation
bearing his name that collapsed and cost the American taxpayer two trillion
dollars. On and on it goes.
But the true legacy Barack Hussein Obama
will be remembered for is his decimation of the Democrat Party. Obama has destroyed Democrats from
coast-to-coast in a manner that is astonishing.
Obama’s first midterm election (2010)
was disastrous for Democrats. With the birth of the Tea Party movement
Republicans gained 63 seats in the House, the largest midterm seat change since
1938, and six Senate seats. That year Republicans gained a record pickup of 680
seats in state legislative races, giving R’s control of 26 state legislatures
and dropping D’s to just 15 of 50. Republicans also took 11 governorships from
the Democrats for a total of 29. 54 incumbents lost re-election bids that
year, 52 were Democrats.
Next, 2014 midterms. Up for grabs, all
435 House seats, 36 Senate seats, 38 governorships, 46 state legislatures.
Though it didn’t seem possible, Democrat defeats in 2010 were dwarfed.
Republicans gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 2006,
increased an already commanding majority in the House and gained two more
governorships.
Things got much worse for Democrats.
2014 saw a sweeping in of the largest Republican majority in nearly a century,
54 seats in the Senate, 247 in the House, 31 governorships, and 68 state
legislative chambers. Republicans gained their largest
majority in Congress and largest majority of state legislatures since 1928.
State legislative elections were
worse. After the 2014 election the number of Republican-controlled state
senates and assemblies rose to 68, the highest number in Republican hands since
1928. The smallest number in Democrat control since 1860.
And then came Tuesday night, November 8,
2016 – when Obama finally finished off his party. Not only did Republicans win
the Presidency and the Vice Presidency, not only did Republicans retain control
of the Senate and of the House, Republicans actually flipped three more governor’s seats. Republicans now have
the most number of Republican governors since 1922!
Thanks to his extreme narcissism, dislike for members of his party, the
radicalness of his hope and change agenda, and somewhat lax work ethic – in
just eight years Obama has done to the Democrat Party what Republicans couldn’t
do in a century. He has obliterated it. But not just in elections and not just
the prime time players like Hillary Clinton, he’s wiped out the bench too.
Think fast: had it not been Trump, name
seven or eight others who could have been the Republican nominee. No
problem, right? Now, name seven or eight Democrats who could have been their
nominee. Heck, name two or three. Most can name but one — Bernie Sanders. A
75-year old second fiddle who was robbed by his own party’s crooked
establishment.
The depth of current and future leaders
who are under 55 years of age on the Republican side is impressive – Rand Paul
is 53; Marco Rubio, 45; Bobby Jindal, 53; Chris Christie, 54; Nikki Haley, 44;
Ted Cruz, 45; Scott Walker, 49. Who is there on the Democrat side? Chuck
Schumer? John Conyers?
So focused has Obama been on remaking
America into his uber-Leftist-socialist utopia that he neglected something very
important; the people of the USA do not want his vision and its the people who
vote candidates and parties into and out of power. He focused on “change”
at the expense of focusing on what’s best for Democrats.
What will be the true legacy of Barack
Obama? It very well could be a statue placed in his honor right in the center
lobby of the RNC building in Washington D.C. Because what this man has
done is lay devastation upon the Republicans’ opposition.
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