Obama ran on closing Guantanamo and black sites but closed very few and maintained Guantanamo and its torture program. He expanded the war on terror resolutions, including allowing extrajudicial executions of US citizens in his expansion of the drone program. The expansion of deportations is not a right-wing meme, it is true. Obama has been the deporter-in-chief, with only Trumps second term probably finally topping Obama’s record there. NSA surveillance expanded under Obama, he was an expansion not just “Didn’t completely end everything and bring it to 0”. Sure, maybe Romney or McCain might have expanded it even more, but that is the only justification for Democrats, that they didn’t maximize the evil as much as possible, so should have uncritical support for that reason.
Obama ran on closing Guantanamo and black sites but closed very few and maintained Guantanamo and its torture program. He expanded the war on terror resolutions, including allowing extrajudicial executions of US citizens in his expansion of the drone program. The expansion of deportations is not a right-wing meme, it is true. Obama has been the deporter-in-chief, with only Trumps second term probably finally topping Obama’s record there. NSA surveillance expanded under Obama, he was an expansion not just “Didn’t completely end everything and bring it to 0”. Sure, maybe Romney or McCain might have expanded it even more, but that is the only justification for Democrats, that they didn’t maximize the evil as much as possible, so should have uncritical support for that reason.