Transparency is a legacy issue for President Obama, who campaigned in 2008 on promises of true reform. The transparency movement is a reform movement based on a vision of modern government. Sunstein and Yglesias make modest arguments against transparency that don't appear to recognize the government's long, systematic exclusion of the public from its processes or the resulting atrophy of Americans' civic muscles. Thus, they too easily conclude that transparency is not necessary because it's not useful.