Hillary 2016: How she transformed Democrats into “new” Republicans

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177. I would distinguish between an establishment candidate and an insurgent who ended up supporting

the Democratic establishment. Barack Obama's campaign was fueled by a very large grassroots effort, unlike Clinton's who had the Party establishment behind her. I think a lot was unknown how Pres. Obama would govern, perhaps even by he himself. I remember reading quite a few fearful articles from the corporate establishment/Wall Street in early 2009 who were afraid that the President would do things like nationalize the banks. It caused panic among some investors. So certainly they were not certain he supported them.

I still remember the President requesting that his supporters apply pressure on him and the establishment to help get things done that we wanted, and I think that we more or less failed to exert much pressure. Where were the big protests in support of the public option? Meanwhile on the Right the tea party was getting (bad) things done.