Predicted Next GOP Presidential Candidate

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He did just executive-order a raise in the minimum wage for federally-contracted employees. That's definitely not good corporatist behavior.

I sincerely don't think he is a corporatist (at least, certainly not in the same way Republicans generally are), he's just been too afraid to fight against it, as he was too afraid to fight against fundamentalists on gay marriage and the law enforcement industrial complex on cannabis prohibition and the Teahadists on the debt ceiling until last year. He does seem to be getting better, bit by bit.

The ACA is a government handout to the insurance companies, and would be a Republican's wet dream if is wasn't pushed by a black Democrat. Even then, there is no public option.

What are the chances he's not going to okay the Keystone Pipeline, creating billions of dollars in wealth for a Canadian company while offloading all of the environmental risk on the American people?

The massive bank bailouts, and the complete inability to do anything to reel them in since then.

Has there been any talk about doing something to overturn Citizen's United and putting a stop to lobbyist buying off our politicians?

The fact that even his modest raise only applies to new contracts made with the federal government, and even at $10.10 an hour would still fall below a living wage. Raising the minimum wage would be popular, and it polls very well; but I won't be impressed until I see a raise in Federal minimum wage to make it a decent living wage (in excess of $10.50 an hour and adjusted yearly for inflation).

Is he as bad as the Republicans? No. Is he a populist, liberal, or a progressive? Hell no.