Gary Younge : Obama paved the way for Trump

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There is a relationship between the old normal & the new. This transition isn't just about sequence but consequence. <a href="https://t.co/f7BQd3NF0m">https://t.co/f7BQd3NF0m</a></p>— Gary Younge (@garyyounge) <a href="https://twitter.com/garyyounge/status/820905434051645440">16 January 2017</a></blockquote>
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"Just a couple of months into his first term he called a meeting of banking executives. “The president had us at a moment of real vulnerability,” one of them told Ron Suskind in his book Confidence Men. “At that point, he could have ordered us to do just about anything and we would have rolled over. But he didn’t – he mostly wanted to help us out, to quell the mob.” People lost their homes while bankers kept their bonuses and banks kept their profits."