The left worships Obama as a hero of progressivism and a savior of the left, and will vehemently defend him as a success no matter what. The reality is that he lead the left to a truly stunning decline. His stewardship has resulted in the Democratic party being decimated, having lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. The Republicans are now more powerful than they have been in over 80 years. Come the 2018 midterms they could win enough seats to have enough power to starting changing the Constitution. He ran on being “the most transparent administration in history” and went after whistleblowers who had to flee the country to escape him. He was immediately handed a Nobel Peace Prize after his election for no reason, then proceeded to kill hundreds of innocents with drones while in power. He spent all the political capital he had on a health care reform law now in the death spiral that critics always said would happen. He entrusted his foreign policy to Hillary Clinton and it lead to disaster after disaster in the Middle East and the rise of ISIS under his watch. His Wall Street reforms froze lending and slowed the recovery. The Russian reset ended with the rise of Vladimir Putin’s influence. His promise of closing guantanamo remains unfulfilled. His campaigning against Brexit this year failed miserably to make any dent. His reign lead to the inflammation of racial tensions as he supported black lives matter, with racial relations sinking to lows we haven’t seen in decades as whole cities from Baltimore to Ferguson burned. The TPP he tried to ram down America’s throat awakened a sleeping giant in the working class vote. The USA gave him the ultimate rebuke by electing not just any Republican as his successor, but his very arch nemesis. All his legacy that he has worked for, he now has to hand over to the one man who said he would tear it all down.
What will become of what has been mentioned above?
What will the relationship between the US government, Western popular media and Five Eyes Intelligence evolve under the Trump administration?