Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults expect that Joe Biden will go down in history as a below-average or poor president, while 26% say he will be remembered as an average president and 19% as outstanding or above average.
All people will remember is 9% inflation, the failed withdrawl from Afghanistan, and attempted policy changes that kept getting reverted by the courts.
If we’re really lucky they’ll remember earmarking $7.5 billion for 500,000 charging stations that still haven’t materialized. Oh, sorry, they made 8. So 499,992 that haven’t materialized.
America recovered faster and stronger from Covid than pretty much every other nation (without a recession), he’s the president who was finally able to get us out of Afghanistan (something the past two president’s tried and failed to do), and the infrastructure bill has been seen as a success I thought from most perspectives.
Not saying this is the right way to look at these events, but just that historians won’t be tied to knee jerk reactions. However, like most president’s I think opinions about Biden will largely be defined by what his actions led to down the road more than his impact during his presidency. What happens with Trump and onward will have an outsized impact on how Biden is written about in the history books.
The problem with the Infrastructure Bill is the results are too far out. By the time any of them are completed, Trump will have claimed credit for them.
I’ve kind of wondered about something. Manchin kind of represents what Republicans should be. He opposes more liberal policies but wants to work with us for America’s benefit. He approves judges that will uphold the constitution, will negotiate instead of obstructing. However, we only got that with him labeled as a Democrat. On paper, this is better than him just being another GOP member.
But, now we’re left with Democrats not being able to get shit done when really it was a conservative blocking progress on key issues.
So my question, would we be better off if Manchin or Sinema were labeled independent from the beginning? Would Democrats be blamed less for what “they” couldn’t get done?
As someone who travels for work, everywhere is redoing their roads with that infrastructure bill money. It’s kind of funny because right now everyone is also complaining about all the construction… Biden did a lot of good, but his legacy will be torn apart by enabling Trump 47. I will remember Biden as the guy that worked with the racists while in the senate, protected Clarence Thomas, ran several times for president not getting the hint, got picked as VP for Obama to signal to racists that Obama was “one of the good ones”, then convinced the DNC to rally behind his presidential run to stop Bernie Sanders, then still not getting the hint tried to run again giving Trump basically the easiest path to victory he could have ever had.
All people will remember is 9% inflation, the failed withdrawl from Afghanistan, and attempted policy changes that kept getting reverted by the courts.
If we’re really lucky they’ll remember earmarking $7.5 billion for 500,000 charging stations that still haven’t materialized. Oh, sorry, they made 8. So 499,992 that haven’t materialized.
I mean you can easily flip those things.
America recovered faster and stronger from Covid than pretty much every other nation (without a recession), he’s the president who was finally able to get us out of Afghanistan (something the past two president’s tried and failed to do), and the infrastructure bill has been seen as a success I thought from most perspectives.
Not saying this is the right way to look at these events, but just that historians won’t be tied to knee jerk reactions. However, like most president’s I think opinions about Biden will largely be defined by what his actions led to down the road more than his impact during his presidency. What happens with Trump and onward will have an outsized impact on how Biden is written about in the history books.
The problem with the Infrastructure Bill is the results are too far out. By the time any of them are completed, Trump will have claimed credit for them.
The 499,992 remaining charging stations will be Trump branded and gold plated.
And attempted policy changes that kept getting killed by members of the president’s own party.
I’ve kind of wondered about something. Manchin kind of represents what Republicans should be. He opposes more liberal policies but wants to work with us for America’s benefit. He approves judges that will uphold the constitution, will negotiate instead of obstructing. However, we only got that with him labeled as a Democrat. On paper, this is better than him just being another GOP member.
But, now we’re left with Democrats not being able to get shit done when really it was a conservative blocking progress on key issues.
So my question, would we be better off if Manchin or Sinema were labeled independent from the beginning? Would Democrats be blamed less for what “they” couldn’t get done?
As someone who travels for work, everywhere is redoing their roads with that infrastructure bill money. It’s kind of funny because right now everyone is also complaining about all the construction… Biden did a lot of good, but his legacy will be torn apart by enabling Trump 47. I will remember Biden as the guy that worked with the racists while in the senate, protected Clarence Thomas, ran several times for president not getting the hint, got picked as VP for Obama to signal to racists that Obama was “one of the good ones”, then convinced the DNC to rally behind his presidential run to stop Bernie Sanders, then still not getting the hint tried to run again giving Trump basically the easiest path to victory he could have ever had.