Obama came in flaming race hate, intolerance and divisiveness. So, he got no support from anyone but the Democrat party drones. And so to get his agenda, he / the Democrats had to go to slight of hand:
1) Going nuclear and eliminating filibusters in the Senate
2) Leveraging the budget reconciliation quirk to get the ACA through
3) Issuing streams of executive orders crossing Constitutional boundaries by the Executive branch
The downside of this for Obama was Trump now has all those weapons to simply wipe Obama's entire legacy of government control and trickle up poverty off the face of the earth. There will be no Obama left shortly, and it was all done the same way Obama got his programs through. The problem with building colossuses with mirrors is you remove the colossus simply by taking down the mirror
1) Going nuclear and eliminating filibusters in the Senate
2) Leveraging the budget reconciliation quirk to get the ACA through
3) Issuing streams of executive orders crossing Constitutional boundaries by the Executive branch
The downside of this for Obama was Trump now has all those weapons to simply wipe Obama's entire legacy of government control and trickle up poverty off the face of the earth. There will be no Obama left shortly, and it was all done the same way Obama got his programs through. The problem with building colossuses with mirrors is you remove the colossus simply by taking down the mirror