1/ Imagine you told a progressive in the summer of 2020 that a year from now, Biden would:
- Pull out of Afghanistan
- Pull out of Iraq
- Get a monthly child tax subsidy to every parent
- Push a $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan
- Have 70% of adults vaccinated by August '21
- Pull out of Afghanistan
- Pull out of Iraq
- Get a monthly child tax subsidy to every parent
- Push a $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan
- Have 70% of adults vaccinated by August '21
2/
- Revoke the Keystone XL pipeline
- End the military trans ban
- Get $1,400 checks to most Americans
- Install more judges in 6 months than anyone since Nixon
What do they do? Laugh in your face
- Revoke the Keystone XL pipeline
- End the military trans ban
- Get $1,400 checks to most Americans
- Install more judges in 6 months than anyone since Nixon
What do they do? Laugh in your face
3/ I really can't wrap my head around it. Since day 1, progs have just been seething over Biden and almost entirely critical of his admin. Somehow he's managed to be the most progressive president yet while maintaining a facade that he's "ruling from the middle"
4/ Obama's admin talked a lot after his presidency about how bad they were at messaging their accomplishments to the base. Trump was incredible at this: every Trump voter knew exactly what he got done. Biden may very well be worse than Obama. I didn't think that was possible...
END/ I know from a progressive PoV there's always more for the govt to do. But the goalposts have moved so much it's incomprehensible. A year ago, none of the hardcore progressive critics of Biden would have ever believed you if you read them that record. But it's almost reality.
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