Honestly, I don't even know where to begin with this one.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1484514317454163973
For all the article's claims that historians thought Biden would be another FDR, there's a link to a Doris Kearns Goodwin interview and ... that's it.
The take on the New Deal is wrong -- FDR wasn't laser focused on economic issues alone, but had programs for conservation, public power, the arts, etc. from the start.
And I don't think I'd call three presidents who were re-elected "politically unsuccessful," and I'd definitely not present LBJ -- who presided over a sweeping set of liberal reforms that is the only rival to the New Deal -- as some sort of legislative failure.
Just bizarre all around.
I've got a full day, but it looks like every other political historian on here is tackling this so, have fun!
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