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Obama was never anywhere close to socialist and was already deep in the political game when elected, this is why he was successful in his role, he accrued political capital in his time in Senate by "dealing with the bad guys." They are from very different places playing very different games going into very different roles.
And we have to expect every politician is going to "deal with the bad guys" because that's how you play. Vast sums of virtual and real wealth change hands behind closed doors and through policy decisions, this isn't the "bad" in what makes for "bad guys" in politics, what makes it bad is the source of this money and how it's being used by outside forces like corporations seeking specific agendas to make their shareholders even wealthier.
Obama could've codified Roe and he didn't. He ran on doing it.
He also could have forced through single-payer healthcare if he wanted, the ACA is a watered down, conservative-designed alternative. There were many ways that Obama established a set-in precedent for Democrats basically becoming the modern conservative party as the Republicans pushed so far right without actual political or cultural opposition that they threw the overton window out into the fucking sea.
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