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By Victoria McGrane GLOBE STAFF DECEMBER 16, 2017
WASHINGTON If one thing has defined President Trumps approach to policy in his first year in office, it is his extraordinary zeal in trying to erase the accomplishments of his predecessor, Barack Obama.
From the petty (axing the White House bike-sharing station) to the profound (the Affordable Care Act), Trump has sought to roll back Obama achievements across the waterfront.
Some of those attempts have failed the health law lives, though one key piece of it, the individual mandate, appears about to go away but the intensity of Trumps effort to bust up his predecessors legacy hasnt ebbed a bit. And he has had some real successes: Through executive actions, regulatory rollbacks, and personnel appointments especially to the judiciary Trump has made serious headway toward his goal, even as some of his own major legislative intitiatives have languished.
Its been pretty clear from the beginning, one animating principle of this administration and, in particular, of this president, has been to consider anything that their predecessor did as bad, said Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
If you want to convince Donald Trump of doing something, he said, rather than arguing the positives of why something would be good for the country or good for his administration, all you have to do is explain to him that this is the opposite of what Obama did.
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OhZone
(3,212 posts)I bet soooooo many things will be restored AND we will name sooooo many things after Obama.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Trump's legacy will be destruction and vandalism
ladjf
(17,320 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)he would have demanded they start on it right from the start instead of spending months and months trying to kill the ACA. Then they wouldn't have had to try to do the tax heist right up against the end of the year, where they STILL have to either extend the current CR or pass 2018 appropriations by December 22nd or the government will shut down.
Irish_Dem
(47,270 posts)Both the cash and obliterating Obama are important to him.