I’m not sure. He set the stage for the wasteful, expensive Iraq war. He didn’t do anything about the atrocities in Bosnia (which had no oil). Incarceration rate in the US shot up 40% from 1989 to 1993. He didn’t do enough to end Reaganite “tough on crime, tough on drugs” policies.
He was decent on immigration and got the ADA passed (though ADA actually isn’t perfect since it enabled frivolous lawsuits and harmed public transit in the US).
In sum, he wasn’t the worst president, but we’d have been better off with Mike “ACLU” Dukakis. I didn’t know him, I didn’t know his family, why should I waste time mourning him?
