@stevendbrewer i guess i disagree, unless "transformative figure" is interpreted only on symbolic dimensions. on material dimensions, his administration had a great deal of discretion, and they chose to preserve stability at the top of our social hierarchies at the explicit expense of those beneath. that strikes me as the opposite of striving and failing to be transformative. 1/

@stevendbrewer Obama did run a scandal-free administration, though he's not lived a modest, Jimmy-Carter-esque postpresidency either. corruption needs definition. /fin