Obama fundamentally transformed America. Trump’s transforming it back.

Michael Busler
4 min readJan 10, 2020

Remember when Barack Obama fundamentally transformed America? He was quite upfront in telling us all what he intended to do. Except for what he really meant. Just days before the 2008 presidential election, Obama said:

“Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that’s taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

“In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.”

How Obama fundamentally transformed America. For the worse…

After the election, President Obama’s actions began to transform America. To achieve this transformation he implemented some historically un-American policies that resulted in an…

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Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.