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Yeah let's all continue to pretend that being better than the Republicans is good enough that is how we will see meaningful change
I don't expect the work of getting off fossil fuels to be completed in the term of any one President; it's a multi-decade project. He's been doing a lot more than 'better than the Republicans' though.