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The conversation is centered around whether Obama was a progressive. He was not.

Progressivism isn’t just confined to the US, so yes people are talking about progressivism with the full context of the global political spectrum in mind.

But even within the US, Obama is nowhere close to a real progressive like Bernie Sanders, who has been consistently fighting for leftist values for decades.

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No. You just have absolutely no knowledge of political science or what ideologies like progressivism or neoliberalism are.

Also funny how you completely ignore my point about how even focusing just on America, Obama is still not progressive. You seem to not have any idea what we’re even discussing

Are you even clicking on my sources? Or just picking the first tiny thing you can find a critique for and pulling a response out of your ass? The thing about “global standards” was a small aside that while true was not the point of the conversation.

Here’s a bunch of more sources you probably won’t read if you want to educate yourself on what political terms mean:

https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2019/6/11/18660240/democrats-neoliberalism

https://progressive.org/op-eds/barack-obama-not-my-hero-pitchford-201214/

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A356354197&v=2.1&it=r&sid=LitRC&asid=6e89d156

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