Almost a decade later, Democrats are still struggling at the state level with the nationwide political devastation of Barack Obama's presidency, notably his first midterm elections in 2010.
Obama is still popular among Democrats, although some of the 2020 candidates are taking shots at his insufficiently progressive record as a way to damage former Vice President Joe Biden. If they dared look honestly at Obama's political legacy outside Washington, D.C., however, there would be a whole lot more criticism.
It looks likely to be a few more cycles, if then, before Democrats, the world's second-oldest political party, fully recover from those immense losses under Obama's party leadership.
