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Trump got lucky. We wanted Change and Obama didn’t deliver.

Thomas Brown
3 min readMar 30, 2018

How did we get here? Where one of the most erudite and hard-scrabble presidents of a generation was immediately succeeded by a plain-speaking son of privilege? Donald Trump couldn’t be more different than Barack Obama in temperament, history, belief, and style; by nearly every metric they are nearly nothing alike. Except for what they both promised to the people who voted for them. These two very different men represent the same base electoral impulse: we want Change, now.

Obama didn’t deliver.

Barack Obama was the Change candidate and he didn’t deliver. It’s that simple. He was charismatic and cool and damn did he have the most inspiring personal story. Yes, we can!

And eight years later…the economic recovery never really got off the ground. Wages are stagnant, small business growth is at a crawl, industry was fleeing, and the millions of jobs that were ‘created’ were mostly crap, part-time, low-skilled, and low-paying.

The Affordable Care Act was an awful piece of partisan legislation. It took a…

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