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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)However if one is frustrated by the policies, actions, or inactions of a president, even (and perhaps especially) one whom one supports, or supported, that frustration may manifest as anger. Americans on the political left, such as it is, are more likely than not to vote Democratic, because, really, what else are they going to do? Vote for Republicans? This does not however mean that they're necessarily going to be partisan Democrats, or that they're going to refrain from criticism of a Democratic president from the left. Much of this criticism is going to be necessarily misguided criticism as it tends to overrate the power and ability of any president to pass legislation in the face of significant obstructionism from the Republicans in Congress as well as from within his own party, but then people at the further ends of the political spectrum tend to be more idealist than pragmatist.