Liberals have good reason to ditch Obama’s lousy legacy

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NY Post

But the Obama-Reagan comparison doesn’t quite work. Though Obama received hagiographic treatment from most of the media while he was in office, Reagan is, in every measurable way, a more enduring political figure in American life. Not only did Reagan lead a movement that conceived and enacted lasting legislative reforms, his presidency transformed the contours of our political discourse.

Add to that the fact that both ends of Reagan’s term are punctuated by achievements with historic resonance: first the lifting the 1970s economic malaise and then the imminent end of the Cold War.

Obama, on the other hand, presided over the slowest economic recovery in American history, and his most notable legislation, the Affordable Care Act, produced a divisiveness that paralyzed Washington for years.

While Reagan’s biggest successes were girded by a national consensus — he won 49 states in 1984 — Obama lost more than 1,000 seats on every level of government while leading his party to minimal policy gains. Most of Obama’s “accomplishments” were the result of executive fiat — pen and phone, as he put it — and thus easily undone.