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> Obama promised to do this! he didn't do it!

True, but important to know that Republican congress stopped every attempt he made. He still got the number of prisoners down from 242 to 55.



Didn’t some Democrats help stopping?


The EO was signed in 2009.

The 2009-2011 Congress was Democratically controlled.


"Close our terrible and unnecessary human rights black hole" was, sadly, too far "left" for a bunch of Democrats, and of course Republicans love that kind of stuff, so they weren't going to help.


This trend of:

> Democrats fail to do something

> it's because they universally wanted to but were obstructed.

Doesn't really work in a post-Trump era. They could've done whatever they wanted to, if they were willing to try.




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