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Really?
It seemed to me that the general reaction to all of those was a bit… muted.
Yes really. Obama promised hope and change, and with a few notable exceptions, he delivered not fucking things up for 8 years.
Biden promised to clean up Trump's mess. He's done this, and taken massive action on decarbonization, and kick started American Industry, and revitilised the Labor movement, and added protections trans people and women's healthcare. Obama's admin delived one major legislative accomplishment a year for 2 years and then putzed around with executive orders. Biden slammed the exactive order button the first month and then kept pounding it, while passing major legislative wins. He got Ukraine aid through a hostile Congress for God's sake and that war is turning around. Biden has done more good in 4 years than Obama managed in 8.
I voted for Bernie. I'm still sore that he lost that primary, but Biden has legit impressed me both with how progressive he has gone and how adroitly he manuved through the legislative process.
Alrighty.
But, as president, his job isn't to pass legislation. That's congress's job.
As always, it's complicated.
And the courts are taking more and more power from the legislature, and the president picks the judges, so it's still critical.