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Are there Biden voters or just Anti-Trump voters? The Biden Administration has been dealing with inflation that just now is leveling out. While his policies match what the majority of voters want, the voters don't want him. The downside is there is no one better to choose. Essentially it is meh Biden is better than anything the GOP has to offer.
The article addresses that. Because the media doesn't report on Biden supporters, the public gets the impression that no one likes him much. I also think approval ratings are not contextualized well, because you rarely see how many people who disapprove of Biden's presidency are right-wing and how many are leftists.
From a personal perspective, while I was not a reluctant Biden voter (would have never voted for Trump), he was far from the top of my list in the 2020 primary. I think, considering the obstacles he's faced, Joe has been a much better president that I expected. That's in spite of Republicans ratfucking student loan relief and robust electoral reform.
He's been actually one of the best we've had. They're never going to be perfect since you can't be an angel and get to be president, you gotta make some deals with the devils.
Not an American, but I think Biden has been the best US president since at least Clinton, and perhaps even since Carter.
(Although I do agree he is too old... Does the democratic party really not have a younger equally capable candidate?)
Obama was a very popular and charismatic guy, but I think he kind of squandered his popularity and failed to achieve results.
Obama wasn't successful with the ACA, or Iraq/Afghanistan or the Supreme Court. He didn't even achieve a minimum wage increase after 2009. Didn't tackle wallstreet.
He should have been a bit more confrontational and twisted some arms to achieve results.
Meanwhile Biden is just steamrolling a lot of successes with a razer thin Senate majority.
We're on the same page I think, he's done some amazing things and no one talks about it. Clinton wasn't a great person but he was a good president. Carter was a great person but had some issues with being too nice for politics imo. He couldn't make any deals with the devils but he can definitely sleep at night. We have so many corrupt people in our upper government that I don't wish that job on anyone.
I hope this guy runs someday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Swalwell
Swalwell certainly seems like a dude whose head is attached to his ass, a rare trait in DC.
The episode where McCarthy said "Call me a ^coward^ again and I'll kick your ass," to which Swalwell replied "You. Are. A. ^Coward^," is also pretty endearing, despite his repetition of a gendered insult. (The word wasn't coward)
He was great during the hearings and trials as well, he seems like a real dude.
I'm the latter