But if they do what they’ve promised, Obama’s ultimate legacy will be greatly diminished. We don’t know yet how much Trump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell will actually be able to do.
The rest could be done with a cooperative Congress, in some cases even without a filibuster-proof majority. Much of that he could do with executive power alone. Trump has promised to repeal Obamacare, to dismantle the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, to reverse the deal with Iran, and to scrap all climate regulations. He opened the military to LGBTQ Americans and appointed Supreme Court justices who made same-sex marriage the law of the land.Īnd now, with the election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, almost all of that legacy is imperiled. He opened the US to Cuba for the first time in more than half a century, and reached a peaceful settlement to the nuclear standoff with Iran. He's put in place the toughest climate rules in American history and signed a major international climate accord. He got surprisingly tough reforms to Wall Street passed as well, not to mention a stimulus package that both blunted the recession and transformed education and energy policy. He signed into law a comprehensive national health insurance bill, a goal that had eluded progressive presidents for a century. Just think about everything that changed during his presidency. Before Tuesday night, Barack Obama was slated to become the most important American president since Ronald Reagan, a liberal icon in the mold of LBJ or FDR who deeply reshaped the federal government.
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