Sigh. It’s easy to be a sort of life-hack-y, technocratic policy type bc when you study issues, there are a lot of minor policy changes that have had enormous effects. But as long as power is distributed so unevenly, all the great wonkery is likely to get undone, I think.
And honestly she would have faced even greater Republican backlash than he did, because she was so much less personally popular. But I suppose you could use the bully pulpit + administrative state in lieu of actual legislation.