The problem with just "being better than Republicans", is it's really easy to look good without doing anything of substance. Let's take a look at some of Biden's policies for example.
He put a moratorium on issuing new leases to drill on public land, good! He did not put a moratorium on the permits that you need on top of the leases, and there's a glut of leases out there, which is why there's over 30 new oil drilling sites on public land within a week despite Biden "banning" it. Net result: negligible.
Biden is stopping the troop drawdown in Germany and Afghanistan, will still be moving the embassy in Isreal to Jerusalem, will still sanction Iran for breaking the treaty despite us breaking it first. Basically on foreign policy he agrees with the bad things Trump did and is trying to stop some of the rare good things he tried to do.
He broke his promises on ending several horrible immigration policies and is continuing them while they're "reviewed". They could end, but he promised to end them immediately and he's not.
His order to ban federal private prisons (yay!) doesn't include ICE detainment camps, explicitly. So 81% of ICE detainees, the kids in cages, are a-okay for Biden! Another campaign promise broken btw.
And then of course there's the COVID relief nonsense to plaster the rest of the Democrats with. The big misunderstanding for the direct stimulus, erring on the side of not helping people, and then at this rate further planning to cut the number of people getting it for no good reason, then there's not helping people who lost their medical insurance over the past year, then there's the talks of walking back the raise in minimum wage, something that passes in red states that Democrats lost.
He put a moratorium on issuing new leases to drill on public land, good! He did not put a moratorium on the permits that you need on top of the leases, and there's a glut of leases out there, which is why there's over 30 new oil drilling sites on public land within a week despite Biden "banning" it. Net result: negligible.
Biden is stopping the troop drawdown in Germany and Afghanistan, will still be moving the embassy in Isreal to Jerusalem, will still sanction Iran for breaking the treaty despite us breaking it first. Basically on foreign policy he agrees with the bad things Trump did and is trying to stop some of the rare good things he tried to do.
He broke his promises on ending several horrible immigration policies and is continuing them while they're "reviewed". They could end, but he promised to end them immediately and he's not.
His order to ban federal private prisons (yay!) doesn't include ICE detainment camps, explicitly. So 81% of ICE detainees, the kids in cages, are a-okay for Biden! Another campaign promise broken btw.
And then of course there's the COVID relief nonsense to plaster the rest of the Democrats with. The big misunderstanding for the direct stimulus, erring on the side of not helping people, and then at this rate further planning to cut the number of people getting it for no good reason, then there's not helping people who lost their medical insurance over the past year, then there's the talks of walking back the raise in minimum wage, something that passes in red states that Democrats lost.
The problem is, now is when all the policies and personnel are being set. In a year it'll all be calcified and it'll be too late to change anything. Now is when you keep the toxic elements out of the administration and now is when you tell Biden his trajectory is wrong. A year from now is too late.I'm giving the Dems at least the first full year of anything before I rag on them again. But in fairness, I gave Donald Trump that same year. They definitely have to prove themselves. They'll have plenty of chances. I see failures, I see hope. I see a lot of the old guard, but then I see stuff like what I've seen out of Jamie Raskin and think there's life somewhere in this party. So I'm giving them time to prove there's ability for growth now that they have power.
Not even a full month seems premature.