This is one of my top pages to track throughout the summer. It's maintained by Scott Sistek. He's gonna be updating this quite often with the heatwave coming.
https://twitter.com/SummerMinutes
https://sundodger.net/summer.html
Yep, Obama is controlling the ideology of the Democrat Party as much as Trump is controlling the ideology of the Republican Party. He's like their mentor.
Before 2008, systemic racism was not an obsession of the Democrats and they weren't panicking over trans students not having rights to use the restroom matching their gender identity. They were always for abortion but they weren't calling conservative Christians "extremists" and a "threat to democracy" for being against abortion until Obama took control of the party.