Obama has already been blamed for everything from the 2008 recession to friggin’ 9/11. I can guarantee you they’ll blame their shitty health care overhaul on him too. “The ACA was just so terrible for so long that we had no choice but to make hard decisions about how to salvage anything at all from its flaming wreckage.”
I think the key difference here is that a lot of the infuriating stuff that Clinton “got away with” only really existed in the apoplectic minds of far-right Republicans, and getting away with something you haven’t actually done is super easy. Meanwhile, the current administration has been churning out real, actual corruption, incompetence, bigotry, and lies on an almost daily basis for months now, and the asshole still has a 39% approval rating. It’s one thing to fall into despair because nobody is taking your moon landing conspiracy theory seriously, it’s quite another to get increasingly baffled and despondent when factually scandal-worthy material is brushed aside like it’s no big deal.
