Continued or escalated? That was kind of the point. And to the point that he hasn’t done anything that can’t be undone, you seem to negate your own premise here. Trump could have, you know, not escalated and liberalized drone policy. But he did, and you’re choosing to blame Obama. Similarly, he could have chosen to not institute zero-tolerance and family separation. So he hasn’t done anything which can’t be undone, but he’s significantly escalated the policies of his predecessor, which...couldn’t have been undone?So if the next president accelerated those policies still further, your logic would indicate that it was inevitable and couldn’t have been undone, right?
One basic point is correct—one of the reasons that Obama’s drone policy was bad is that it gave future presidents cover and precedent to accelerate it and remove even the modicum of accountability that his administration put in place. Of course, that’s exactly what’s happened, yet you seem unwilling to either acknowledge that fact on its own, or to acknowledge that it’s taking a bad precedent and making it worse. So, in light of that, has Trump not done anything that can’t be undone, and why was the O administration any different?
You’re barking up the wrong tree with me. I was opposed to Obama’s drone policy, and am on record here for years as having done so. I voted for the guy, twice, and I am more than willing to offer my laundry list of policies of his that I think were ****ty. Trump’s now doing worse things in two areas that you allegedly care a lot about, and the only comment you have is that, well, it’s actually Obama’s fault.