I still like him and admire him personally, but he’s certainly more liberal than I thought he was.Then Brooks explains the President's inactivity in this interesting way:
He's more liberal than he thinks he is. He thinks he’s just slightly center-left, but when you get down to his instincts, they’re pretty left. And his problem is that he can’t really act on them, because it would be political disaster. And so that means, I think right now he’s doing very little, proposing very little.
To be sure, "right now he's doing very little" but imagine what a nightmare he'll be if reelected with no further worries about electability.
