Honestly a comforting read as someone who isn’t a huge Biden fan. Things are improving! As a person in their early 20’s it’s felt like the world fell apart right as I was entering the work force, nothing has been affordable and crime has been a major worry. Seeing that crime is down and we’re likely going to avoid a worse recession is like having a weight off my shoulders.
Man I hope us Europeans are just going through a phase right now. Here in Germany the population didn't take green politics well and global disruptions were blamed on the current government so the far right got an uptick in popularity. Other EU-countries also have the far right on the footstep of ruling and some already fell.
I’ll admit I don’t know much about European politics, but from a foreign view it’s scary. I’ve always seen the far right in American politics it’s more or less the status quo, but seeing the far right rise in modern Europe is shocking to me. Most of this is informed by what I’ve seen in the news about what’s been going on in Italy though.
I'm also not a huge Biden fan. He's been in the pocket of the movie and recording industry for most of his political career, and as Vice President helped write treaties that further empower them around the world. I was expecting more of a capitalist liberal and less of a progressive. I wonder if Harris isn't the mitigating factor here, but in the end he's still done far better as President than I expected.
Heading into next year’s presidential election, Republicans have been readying a three-pronged attack: crime soaring in cities, chaos raging at the southern border and prices spiralling out of control everywhere.
Consumer sentiment is at its highest point in two years, according to a survey by the University of Michigan, while both Federal Reserve staff and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office now predict that America will avoid a recession.
Violent offences rose sharply in major cities during the coronavirus pandemic, loomed large during last year’s midterm elections and prompted a backlash against progressives pushing to “defund the police”.
Yet last month, under a new rule that makes it harder to attain full asylum, illegal border crossings fell to the lowest level in more than two years and the issue quickly faded from the news agenda.
Speaking at a manufacturing plant in Auburn, Maine, the president said: “While there is more work ahead, earlier this week, the Washington Post suggested Republicans may have to find something else to criticise me for now that inflation is coming down.
Biden did a great job of making sure that Roe v Wade could be overturned. Remember in 2008 when it was the number 1 priority and conservative joe, was vice president and the dems had a majority in congress and suddenly it wasn't that important anymore?
Unlike the last two Democratic presidents, Biden inherited an economy that was, fundamentally, OK, and thanks to an extremely narrow Congressional majority he had a good excuse for not doing anything to help poor people and instead simply spending money to build stuff and create jobs.
He's also come along at a fortuitous time in foreign relations; China's antagonized most of its trading partners plus their economy's spiraling into catastrophe, Russia managed to stitch the EU and NATO back together and get all of our lukewarm allies back to feeling extremely gung-ho about American military assistance, renewable energy is starting to make a real dent in oil politics...
He's a perfectly competent old-school moderate Democrat and his relationships on the Hill may have made the difference with the infrastructure bill e.g. but he also came into an unusually good situation.
When he took office, 700 people a day were dying of COVID. At the end of his first year, it peeked at 2000 a day. I wouldn't call that an "unusually good situation."
Of all the things that could be said about 2020, Biden coming into an unusually good situation is the most disingenuous, even if you are just talking about the economy.
Trump and Republicans blew an insane amount of money and had nothing to show for it among the general population, covid-19 was handled incredibly bad by Trump leading up to that point, and the lame duck president of the United States had just attempted a coup to stay in power.
Framing this time as anything but unprecedented and tumultuousis does not do it justice.
The only thing I care about is student loan forgiveness and so far he's done fuck all. Until that is handled, as far as I'm concerned his presidency had been mediocre at best to shitty at worst.
Come on now you absolutely know he tried to forgive a ton of student debt and you know it was republicans and the right-wing captured supreme court that blocked it. So why are you blaming Biden exactly... I don't really need an answer I just think you should blame the right people and maybe appreciate where we would be if we didn't have Biden in the white house.
I'm sorry that the issue you care about most has failed, but it's not like it's because Biden hasn't fought for student loan forgiveness. It is not his fault that conservative judges have shut it down.
Also they keep rolling out new repayment plans and narrower rounds of forgiveness and stuff like that - if the courts won't let them do it all at once, they'll keep chipping away bit by bit until they forgive as much debt for as many people as the system will allow.
On one end, I believe most of us can see the republican party is outright embarrassing this idea that they hurt the poor.
On the other hand, a leader is defined by his successes, not his failures. No matter how charismatic he might be. He is already clearing student debt in a different ways, So I am not counting him out yet.
But I also know the dangers of overpraising democrats for starting a project and not finishing it.
Yeah, honestly these people can pretty much do anything they want if they want to do it. Democrats could've fought about it harder. People commit people to war to die and change the lives of others every day. If they wanted to do something, they could do it. It's no excuse. This is all a charade.
I can’t believe the absurd neoliberal replies you’re getting. Dude literally WROTE the legislation that put us in this student loan predicament and his son was given $250,000 by MBNA the following year.
And for everyone saying Biden tried his best, He INTENTIONALLY lost the battle to forgive student loans, you stupid dupes!