WaPo: Democrats can’t win until they recognize how bad Obama’s financial policies were. January 13, 2017 by Garret Vreeland in Economics, Home & Living, Politics The resulting policy framework of Tim Geithner’s Treasury Department was, in effect, a wholesale attack on the American home (the main store of middle-class wealth) in favor of concentrated financial power. The second was the administration’s pro-monopoly policies, which crushed the rural areas that in 2016 lost voter turnout and swung to Donald Trump.