The Republican Party is well on its way to undoing every significant piece of legislation and

[still_one]

progress President Obama accomplished

This has has nothing thing to do with ideology, it is pure racist hate

[Matthew28]

1. The republican party

wants to return America to the 18th century...

It isn't just Obama but everything back to Lincoln. Including the entire new deal!

[unblock]

4. More like 13th century, but yeah.

[manor321]

2. Executive

Yes, tremendous damage is being done and people are being hurt.

The one positive thing is that the vast majority of changes are not happening through laws passed by Congress (which can be difficult to undo), but rather through actions of the executive branch (which can be easier to undo if we get a Democratic president).

[still_one]

3. I am not sure about that. The EPA, Dept of Education, HUD, and every major department and

organization are systematically being destroyed, and the SC is close to the undoing of Roe v Wade, the Civil Rights Act, etc. we are one SC justice away from rolling us back decades

[Cosmocat]

10. The state department, CDC ...

It would take over a decade of a strong democratic president to rebuild the federal government.

Totally self inflicted wounds, the PEOPLE chose this is the greatest tragedy of it.

[still_one]

11. Yes It was probably the worst possible scenario, since both houses were lost also. It is highly

unlikely we would take control in f the Senate, so the SC we have to hold out until 2020 for that

[CrispyQ]

33. This: "...the PEOPLE chose this is the greatest tragedy of it."

[EleanorR]

44. 3 million more chose Clinton nt

[Cosmocat]

45. 2 out of 3 voters

Did not cast their ballot for Hillary. People want to Discount the people who either sad it out or voted third-party, but Germany happened because of the people who did just that. The people will run along for the ride, or didn't care to bother, or see what was going on.

[CrispyQ]

31. McConnell recently bragged that he's making "generational changes" to the judiciary.

And he is. It will take decades to undo the damage already done. If the dems don't gain control of at least one chamber of Congress in November, we may not come back from this.

[Garrett78]

41. That's one of the most damaging and overlooked aspects.

The massive number of lifetime appointments of right wing extremists.

[Demsrule86]

5. This was expected. Those who put Trump in office supposedly on our side literally have blood on

their hands.

[ChiTownDenny]

18. Elections have consequences.

Obama legacy...poof! Gone!

[Moostache]

19. This is wrong...Obama's Legacy is yet to be fully realized...

Trump and Trumpism is the racist, knee-jerk reaction to President Obama and his policies and the actual change he brought to America. Undoing the policies is not erasing his legacy, it will ultimately enhance it. When a Democratic President and Congress eventually returns to power, the whiplash effect of this era will be finished. Literally everything Trump is doing will be undone in the first 100 days, it will be FDR redux...hopefully without a second Great Depression.

Trump is truly a moron, his followers are racist idiots and the arc of history does not bend towards their spite.

[bdamomma]

20. they will try to eliminate

every good step President Obama has made but they won't.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/trump-hasnt-destroyed-obamas-legacy.html

just a snip of the article.

Yet even as conservatives have grown more satisfied with Trump’s accomplishments, they have retreated from their giddy belief that he could and would dismantle his predecessor’s. Indeed, in a curious way, Trump has inadvertently affirmed the value and durability of the 44th presidency. One year after his departure, Obama’s legacy is actually stronger than ever.

[Cha]

6. May the Law of Unintended Consequences

Blowback in their collective traitorous face.

And, the Law Of Karma bite them exponentially harder than their fucking fangs have sunk into our country and Planet.

[KPN]

27. THIS. It will, it must.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Obama? You're shortsighted.

Try FDR and the New Deal.

[KPN]

29. True. But it starts with a hatred for Obama, racism; and the ideologues in and behind the GOP are

simply riding that coattail to achieve their longer term objective. Don't underestimate the power and role of racial hatred at play in this nation-fuck.

[moonseller66]

8. It's like 2008 and 2012 never existed

The turnip in office hates Obama so much that he's done everything he could to reverse or stop any and all of the benefits the previous administration's 8 years produced...even those the Republicans agreed on.

We actually are in the continuation of Bush II.

Is it really 2009 plus? or the equivalent of a time warped 2011 under Republicans? Did we just move back in time 9 years? Sure seems like it.

[KPN]

30. Yes, for the fat, piggish moron occupying the WH, it is about hatred for and

and vengeance against Obama. No question in my mind about that. In 2004 and before, little fingers was a substantial contributor to Democratic Party candidates. That ended in 2007/8. This is all about the pig's vindictive self.

[Utah Grizzlee]

9. Which is why.....

...we need to freakin' chain-pull asses to the polls in November, starting with our own!

[lastlib]

12. THIS!!!!

GET. OUT. THE FURSHLUGGINER. VOTE!!!

[True Blue American]

13. The PNAC is back

In charge with the choice of John Bolton. There is no one in this corrupt Administration to stop them. They are all too busy destroying the country and fleecing the tax payer.

[Guilded Lilly]

14. I've never seen the hatred for humanity so strong and determined...

and while broad strokes about people can be very dangerous territory, (frustrated and powerless rant follows)...
the hideous destruction comes from soul damaged Republicans in power: capitalist, bigoted, entitlement drenched white men who reek of misogyny hiding behind twisted Christianity and vile racism. Conservatives in power conserve nothing. They obliterate decency for profit and greed. We are skirting the edges of the Perfect Storm of nation destroying human corruption.

Furthermore, these foul men have successfully wakened, encouraged and embraced the wretchedly STUPID of America who have always been a shallowly existing sub species in the U.S. to make them a vicious, unfettered and accepted norm. Mean, lip curling, classless, graceless men and women now have a nauseating voice and platform.

Along with the lost integrity of reality show mentality media and a gutless deterioration of decency and courage among “journalists”...

We are in for years of heart crushing shit that will be a long time in recovery, even with the perseverance of millions of good and true men and women. It is going to be a damned long battle that we must win.

[still_one]

15. Well stated Lilly

[bdamomma]

21. well said

Your last sentence is what we need to accomplish. They will not take us down.

[Moostache]

22. You are spot on....on all points....thank you (n/t)

[Cosmocat]

46. Yep

People just don't get what is going on.

[Tarc]

16. Elections have consequences . Let that be a lesson for some

[still_one]

17. Should have learned that this be from 2000

[NCTraveler]

23. Don't forget that he called for the execution of innocent black men.

He led the charge.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york

His history is clear.

[KPN]

32. And don't forget that he was a big contributor to Democratic Party candidates prior to 2008.

His history IS clear.

[NCTraveler]

34. I don't ever recall him being a "big" contributor as you state.

No doubt that his racism is historically documented.

[KPN]

39. There was an article in, if I remember right, the WAPO just a day or so ago about this.

I'll see if I can track it down and post the link here.

Edit: here it is
[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016206112|

[NCTraveler]

42. I wouldn't call that a major contributor...

Considering his “wealth” over that eighteen year period of time. The list of individuals who contributed over a million dollars to Democrats last year alone is pretty long.

Trump is no Democrat. He is a racist. History is clear on both counts.

[KPN]

43. Whatever. Compared to me and many others, its pretty frigging major.

Not to mention the moron was a registered D from 2001 to 2009.

[NewJeffCT]

24. Not just Obama

they're trying to undo much of the New Deal as well.

[Initech]

25. It's also a case of "my team vs your team".

And the republicans think that their team wins 100% of the time, every time. Because they are the "more patriotic than you" team. And that's scary.

[KPN]

26. Can't disagree with that. Would like to think I could, but nope, it really

does seem that simple. There is absolutely no other reason that makes sense to me at all. Sad and maddening.

[dalton99a]

28. Yep. It's "Obama bad. Trump good"

[wiggs]

35. Yes. Plus, there's a certain percentage of people who like -- need -- to punch

down, to dominate. The more their leaders are unsympathetic hardasses, the better. Race always matters for them, but isn't necessary in this equation...so you get attacks on the ADA, CHIP, health care, women's rights, voting rights. Poor people of any color, of course. Any other country (except ones where they have more unsympathetic sociopathic hardasses in charge than we do). Refugees.

The GOP has been collecting and cultivating this cross section of America for a long time and Trump is what we get.

This principle appears to trump principles, laws, religion, sense of justice, morality, oaths of office.

[C_U_L8R]

36. It's all our job...

to restore Obama's legacy after this Trump fiasco

[still_one]

37. Yes

[yallerdawg]

38. All they serve is their hate and fear - and their filthy rich patrons.

There just has to be more of us than them - everywhere.

[Garrett78]

40. It's both political ideology and white supremacy run amok.

The ideology is one of undermining the effectiveness of and trust in the US government, which is what links Putin and Republicans. Republicans seek super-individualism and super-privatization, an end to any notion of there being a commons, an end to collectivism. The Powell Memo helped get the ball rolling.

Key to that, of course, is denying or ignoring injustices, including any notion that past injustices could possibly continue to impact the present.