Trump's greatest mission: erasing Obama's legacy
By Victoria McGrane GLOBE STAFF DECEMBER 16, 2017
WASHINGTON — If one thing has defined President Trump’s 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 Trump’s effort to bust up his predecessor’s legacy hasn’t 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.
“It’s 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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I bet soooooo many things will be restored AND we will name sooooo many things after Obama.
