“To be an innovator, sometimes you have to break through the system,” said Levi Tillemann, who worked in Obama’s Department of Energy and is running as a first-time candidate to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican “That’s what Obama did."

I have to disagree. It's the opposite of what Obama did. Obama did not seem to have an appetite to challenge the failures of the system tirelessly, and yet this was what he was sent to office with a mandate to do and champion for The People. I consider his compromises on non-negotiable progress to be the basis for his biggest policy failures and his administration's apparent inability to impart any lasting changes that could withstand willful vandalism from the likes of most uncivil and disingenuous Trumpist ideology and their regime's wildly radical illiberal destructive initiatives. Obama had a pulpit, he should have used it to proselytize for the left, which he simply would not do in many ways on many days. Trump is not so circumspect.