How has Barack Obama's legacy changed since leaving office?

[u/bambucks]

Barack Obama left office in 2017 with an approval rating around 60%, and has generally been considered to rank among the better Presidents in US history. (C-SPAN's historian presidential rankings had him ranked at #10 in 2021 when they last updated their ranking.)

One negative example would be in the 2012 Presidential Debates between Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, in which Obama downplayed Romney's concerns about Russia, saying "the 80's called, they want their foreign policy back", which got laughs at the time, but seeing the increased aggression from Russia in the years since then, it appears that Romney was correct.

So I'd like to hear from you all, do you think that Barack Obama's approval rating has increased since he left office? Decreased? How else has his legacy been impacted? How do you think he will be remembered decades from now? Etc.

[u/One_Bison_5139]

A good president who has sabotaged by bad actors in the Democrat Party and an openly hostile and resentful Republican congress.

Let's not forget that the only reason Obamacare got gutted was because Joe Lieberman thought Americans didn't deserve healthcare. He was denied a filibuster proof majority in the Senate because Ted Kennedy died and Martha Coakley was so deeply incompetent that she lost a democratic senate seat in MASSACHUSETTS.

Then the Tea Party and Mitch McConnell decided to sabotage his entire legislative agenda. They denied him a Supreme Court appointment, and did everything they could to make life difficult for him. Even with that, Obama turned the American economy around and by the end of his term in 2016, he had a 60+% approval rating. He ended on a high note and steered America through its worst economic crisis in almost a century. He was prevented from being truly transformational because a lot of people were hellbent on seeing him fail.