Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.

The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.

With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s reported rueful reflections are revealed in a Washington Post profile that contains the clearest signs yet that he thinks he erred in withdrawing his candidacy in July after a woeful debate performance against his rival for the White House, Trump, the previous month.

    • @grue
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      425 days ago

      Yes, I know what neoliberalism is and yes, I really do mean that.

      The dominant faction of the Democratic Party is, in fact, neoliberal. As a result, the party’s platform as a whole supports free-market capitalism, free trade, low regulations, weak worker protections, etc.

      That’s why (for example) Hillary Clinton championed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and why politicians like Elizabeth Warren and AOC who care about things like workers’ rights and Wall Street reform are among the minority within the party.

      Neoliberals are guys like Elon Musk.

      No, Neoliberals are guys like Elon Musk pretended to be before he came out as full-blown fascist.

      • @andxz
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        Thank you for literally being the first person I’ve ever seen online that actually seems to know what Warren stands for. Not exaggerating even the slightest, either.

        She could’ve been president, back when it would’ve mattered.

      • @Chessmasterrex
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        75 days ago

        I worry that neoliberalism may need fascism in order to be fully realized.

      • @Maggoty
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        No you don’t. You just want a word for super evil. The TPP is not in any way, shape, or form Neoliberal. And the Democrats just finished four years of fighting tooth and nail to get more regulation of industry into place. I’m not a fan of them but this is just ridiculous.

        • @grue
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          54 days ago

          The TPP is not in any way, shape, or form Neoliberal.

          This just proves you have no clue whatsoever what neoliberalism is.

    • @Maggoty
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      Oh dude lemmy has decided that there are no normal liberals left. It’s progressives and neoliberals. And no amount of reasoning, showing them academic materials, or engaging with the tenets of the ideologies will shift it. Neoliberals is the new “rich people I don’t like” label.