The fact that Biden has delivered on left-wing policy far better than any president in generations but is widely despised by left-wing voters reflects more poorly on left-wing institutions and voters than on Biden. This is not a movement showing political maturity, and I say that as a left-winger
I feel like the main political divide on this website is between “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I hate him” and “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a rancid ham sandwich against Donald Trump”
very few people are actually huge fans of the guy
I find the fact that he got basically no credit for some really significant domestic policy achievements to be a very bad sign, yeah
it shouldn’t be as hard as it is for people to acknowledge that he has actually been good on a lot of fronts
I think those who are most upset about the genocide almost perfectly overlap with the set of leftists who otherwise would embrace Biden’s achievements is a big pet of this story. Really hard to speak well of someone helping to accomplish a genocide, even if they’ve performed well in other areas.
Funny that wasn’t my experience! But that’s anecdotal. Do you have more general evidence about the center-left not appreciating Biden pre-genocide? Would be curious to see.
My general experience (anecdotal, of course) was seeing a lot of people who’d been advocating for student loan forgiveness, and saying that even if Biden tried it and SCOTUS struck it down he’d still get the credit, immediately turn to saying SCOTUS only struck it down because he did it wrong.
Drones is the one that really sticks out to me. It was the biggest reason that certain people hated Obama then didn’t hear a peep when Trump expanded it (let alone how Biden almost completely ended the program).
"One drone strike a year is as bad as one drone strike a week" is the kind of thing you can say when you don't actually care about dronestrikes.
There's things that those who believe deeply and passionately will say and then things that those who don't but want to look like they do say.
