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It's not a reflection on policy so much as on media coverage of policy changes.

• maxerickson 8y ago
  In the comment I replied to, you plainly try to invalidate a policy goal based on it being rolled out near an election, a thing that is pretty much always true (nationally significant elections occur every 2 years...).
  • masonic 8y ago
    a thing that is pretty much always true How many examples can you give from the Bush 43 administration? Or Bush 41? Or Reagan? The practice of implementing major policy changes as a lame duck was pretty much nonexistent before 2000. It becomes an even bigger problem when rules are implemented that conflict with law, like the 2014 DACA expansion[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals#Expansion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...
    • kyralis 8y ago
      "Less than two years after inauguration" is a very bizarre definition of "lame duck".
      • masonic 8y ago
        It was 6.5 years after inauguration.
  • gpm 8y ago
    On the other hand the context of this discussion is > back to the pre-George H.W. Bush era The comment you objected to was, in my reading, mainly noting that this was reverting to the policy in place nearly 2 full presidencies after said era.