It’s Virtually Impossible to Be a Successful Modern President
Being president is the most powerful job in the world. At which you will almost certainly fail. . .
. . . it’s hard to see how Obama could be considered “successful” even if he hadn’t made the various mistakes — in governance and the politics of politics — that he did. His presidency began at a time not only of unprecedented polarization in Congress and the country but also at a moment in which a president’s ability to bend the country to his will had reached a low ebb.