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The first comparison between these two leaders is related to becoming a \u201ctransformational\u201d president. Historians and political analysts believe that Reagan was good at breaking new ground and he managed to usher America into a novel way of governance while changing the economic trajectory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obama shared these same sentiments when he commented about Reagan by saying \u201cI don\u2019t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure.\u00a0 I think part of what\u2019s different is the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I think they felt like, you know, with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s, and the government had grown and grown, but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think people just tapped into — he tapped into what people were already feeling, which was, we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I think Kennedy, 20 years earlier, moved the country in a fundamentally different direction. So I think a lot of it just has to do with the times\u201d [Source]<\/a>. When he first stepped into office, Obama was projected to have introduced a new era linked to the crumbling down of racial blockages that prevented minority races from succeeding in America. The phrase \u201cthe first black president\u201d was contextual in that all races which were looked down upon were now going to flourish and since a \u2018black\u2019 person was at top of the helm, hate crimes and racial tensions might disappear. In this perspective, Obama was likened to Reagan for changing America\u2019s trajectory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Obama\u2019s achievements in the office include a new nuclear deal with Iran, good relations with Cuba, an all-time 2-year high rating after the approval of Obamacare by the US Supreme Court [Source]<\/a>. But critics such as Tom Nichols, a political blogger and author of a column called \u2018Fantasyland: Obama Is No Ronald Reagan\u2019, argued that Obama is \u201csimply plowing the ground Reagan cleared 30 years ago\u201d [Source]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In terms of Reagan\u2019s economic strategies, analysts say \u201chis trickle-down economics\u2019 –cut taxes on the rich to stimulate the economy — still shapes how we pay taxes today\u201d. David O\u2019Connell, a political science professor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania said \u201cWhen Reagan took office, the top income tax rate was 70%. By 1986, it had been reduced to 20%. We\u2019re never going back to that earlier level of taxation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cObama won the health care battle, Reagan is still winning the war over big government,\u201d as noted by Nichols. Some parties do believe that Obamacare makes Obama a transformational president because it is \u201cthe biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising in the United States three decades ago — roughly when Reagan took office\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it comes to social economics, Reagan despised socialism as he believed that such a strategy will make everyone suffer, and under the same subject, Obama was willing to serve 75% of the population while taking from those who seemed privileged enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n