Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

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