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Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President (newrepublic.com)

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Don't you want to at least see Biden in a last term with nothing to lose besides legacy? He'll be term limited, plus his age... he'll do something crazy to be loved.

He'll make weed legal if it isn't by then... He'll forgive all the student debt this time.... He'll expand the Supreme Court... He'll do something worthwhile and he will continue to not be trump.

Plenty of things where he misses my ideal, but generally positive progress and we keep pressure on for more progressive choices. General progress...

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

This is basically the same argument people made about Obama's second term. "He had to pull back in the first term or he'd lose reelection! In his second term, that's when he'll do all the progressive things that he ran on!" Anyway, he didn't do any of those things, but we did find out he'd secretly put us all under mass surveillance.

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[-] Rookwood@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

He's been alright. I'm a strident leftist. The cynical part of me says his second term will be significantly less alright once he's not working for re-election. But he won't be worse than Trump.

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 points 8 months ago

The only thing I hate is the whole Israel thing and trump is NOT better.

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[-] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

And with one post, you infuriated both the youngest- and the oldest generations.

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[-] the_q@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

He has not been great. He's not been Trump. We deserve a better class of politician, but as long as there's a citizens united we won't have them.

[-] Hegar@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

A democratic pollster interviewed on NPR repeated a great quote from a focus group participant: "My hood didn't get any better under obama, or any worse under trump. What's biden got to do with me?"

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