to America as well as the Democratic Party by his failure to act decisively and thus presidentialy by facing down the Republicans as they became ever more extreme?
Obama leaves in his wake a chain of cowering reaching to the horizon.
Regarding the news that Moscow considered Trump the perfect useful idiot and worked overtime to get him his–now more than ever–compromised from the get-go, precarious perch (considered by Trump to be a throne),
Simon Tisdall in The Guardian writes:
“Obama’s role in this developing scandal is also coming under scrutiny. Members of Congress and White House officials told the Washington Post that Obama was worried that if he went public with evidence of Russian meddling during the election, he would be accused of using national intelligence resources to boost Clinton’s chances.”
Oh, my. . . the GOP might have accused him of something. . .
This was after years of being pushed around by them. This was in the wake of their stealing a Supreme Court justice.
Obama had learned nothing.