The sad truth is; Democrats like Pres. Obama encourage Republicans, by legitimizing their policies when we compromising with them, instead of drawing a hard ideological line like all conservatives. Without that push back, liberal policies are harder to defend, despite their reality based benefits. Robert Reich summed it up best in this NY Times comment:
Mr. Reich says. “In the narrowest, tactical terms, in sheer dollars committed to programs, Obama’s done pretty well, and his favorability ratings are better than those of the Democratic Party.”
Then he sweeps his hands far apart in his sun-filled warren of an office at the University of California, Berkeley.
“If you widen the lens, the public is being sold a big lie — that our problems owe to unions and the size of government and not to fraud and deregulation and vast concentration of wealth. Obama’s failure is that he won’t challenge this Republican narrative, and give people a story that helps them connect the dots and understand where we’re going.”
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