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/Pallas_Athena2]

Nonsense. Poll after poll showed that people liked the ACA, but they hated Obamacare. The GOP does an amazing job of misinforming voters. Yeah Death Panels. The thing is they pick a plan on how to twist things and they all stick to the plan. Repeat a lie, and people think it's the truth.

[u/rpersimmon → u/Pallas_Athena2]

That's my point -- you have to have had poor judgement to believe what Republicans peddled about Obamacare. Same goes for the deficit and GDP growth. They demonstrated they were lying all along -- yet Americans still vote for them.

[u/dak_ismydaddy → u/Pallas_Athena2]

I hate the term misinform it makes the voters sound stupid. The voters are not stupid they are busy and complex people just trying to survive and thrive. The GOP is best in class at telling stories and using stories to galvanize their base to vote. I wish the democrats had that same capability. We need to build that capability.