Is that what he was doing ? I thought it was more like strong-arming a Republican supermajority Legislature on abortion, gun control and Disney.
If “strong-arming” is your interpretation of his accomplishing things most of us would agree are good, compare that to Trump that failed miserably at “strong-arming” Congress. No mass deporting illegals (if he was even in really support of that), no wall (couldn’t even get Republican congress to agree!), and so forth.