LurkerJ said:
Or it just means trumpism is unbeatable and Biden lucked out with Covid in 2020. I can list the 10 ways things could’ve been differently but when Arabs vote for the guy who promised further green lights to Netenyahu when Gill Stein is on the ticket… there is no fucking words. Neoliberalism hasn’t helped but Biden has done a damn good job reversing those policies. To think Trump talked about repealing the chips act and still won. There are no words. |
Yeah, I'm 100% convinced now that Biden got lucky, if not for COVID, Trump would have stomped him too.
And yes, Biden actually introduced a lot of great acts which help Americans; The American Rescue Plan Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, The Chips and Science Act, Inflation Reduction Act, etc. Got down the price of things like Insulin. Investing in Green Energy and for all the "Drill Baby Drill" America actually drills more than ever. He did so after inheriting a battered economy due to COVID but by all accounts America has recovered better than most countries but all this gets overridden by Inflation because daily goods still are too high for the average consumer.
And Biden's foreign policy, it started strong with a lot of good decisions, I supported withdrawing from Afghanistan (though it was sloppy), he restored America's relationship with NATO/Europe and strengthened NATO. He stood up against Russia. He stopped a coup happening in Brazil (apparently). Ukraine was the first good military foreign policy intervention that America has done in decades, a clear example of good vs evil and for once America was on the side of good! Now they're going to throw that away and go back to zero redeeming foreign policy features and wonder why everyone hates them.
Biden's foreign policy in the last year has been a disaster though, far too much support for Israel and too much dragging their feet with Ukraine and pissing their pants at upsetting Russia. Now couple this with Biden not stepping aside soon enough and Democrats losing the election, Biden will likely go down as one of the worst Presidents in recent history. If he took his foreign policy decisions on Ukraine/Israel and reversed them (I.E. More restriction for Israel, less restriction for Ukraine) and Inflation didn't exist (which largely isn't his fault) then he would have gone down as one of the best.
But I can invent alternative realities all day, this is the one we live in.
