Barack Obama: “My policies are so mainstream that, if I had said the same policies…”

On the recordMay 10, 2021

My policies are so mainstream that, if I had said the same policies that I have back in the 1980s, I`d be considered a moderate Republican.

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Obama reflects on how his policies would have been viewed as moderate in the past.

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