Predictions of Biden's Presidency
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I think Biden's pretty likeable, especially with how he touches girls. It's so adorable. He's like a grandpa, except probably erect the whole time!
Never forget, Joe Manchin somehow still exists and thus he and other Democrats will always ensure that Republicans will control congress.
Who exactly would you run in West Virginia that could even potentially win? If a socialist progressive Democrat ran for senate in West Virginia, they'd be lucky to get 25% of the vote against any Republican. How are you failing to grasp that large swathes of this country don't share your political views?
The political reality is that Manchin is the best Democrats can hope to get out of that state right now, and a Republican-lite who votes with Democrats 50% of the time is better than an actual Republican that votes with Democrats 10% of the time.
Literally in the last election Democrats that ran in Republican districts on M4A won while Democrats who explicitly did not run on M4A lost Brooklyn. We don't need Joe Manchin, and further the fight to reach 50 votes is moot because it assumes Joe Manchin and other centrist Democrats will vote with anything resembling thought or conscience.
Centrists lose everywhere and progressives can win anywhere, take your apologism somewhere else Republican-lite.
Progressives’ Wish List for Biden Starts With Warren and Sanders (Published 2020)
The Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats, two of the left’s most prominent groups, are calling on the president-elect to appoint progressive allies to 13 key government positions.
It won't happen, but it'd be nice.
Appreciate them for trying. Won't get hopes up that he'll actually do it, though it'd be nice to see yeahProgressives’ Wish List for Biden Starts With Warren and Sanders (Published 2020)
The Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats, two of the left’s most prominent groups, are calling on the president-elect to appoint progressive allies to 13 key government positions.www.nytimes.com
It won't happen, but it'd be nice.
Assuming we get there as I hope, I suspect the Biden years will be similar to the 2013-2016 Obama years: quietly improving things where he has the power to and tackling crises as they arise with competence. Leftists will be outraged he didn't do every single thing they demanded. Conservatives will claim he went on an apology tour and ruined the country regardless of merit. Most Americans won't really notice much change overall, but will at least be happy for a bit more calm for the first year and a bit before the mid-terms.
There won't be any major legislative achievements unless the Dems pull an upset in the two Georgia run-off elections. If that happens, A COVID Economic relief bill will be the test of whether the filibuster makes it past April. It'll pass, but most legislation will be fairly moderate and uncontroversial due to the total lack of room to negotiate between the left and right flanks of the party and the GOP likely insisting on total obstruction.
Most of the most substantive achievements will be either via quiet administrative rules (particularly if Warren and/or Sanders get their desired cabinet posts) or diplomatic wins.
There won't be any major legislative achievements unless the Dems pull an upset in the two Georgia run-off elections. If that happens, A COVID Economic relief bill will be the test of whether the filibuster makes it past April. It'll pass, but most legislation will be fairly moderate and uncontroversial due to the total lack of room to negotiate between the left and right flanks of the party and the GOP likely insisting on total obstruction.
Most of the most substantive achievements will be either via quiet administrative rules (particularly if Warren and/or Sanders get their desired cabinet posts) or diplomatic wins.
If it ends up like the Obama years then I imagine what leftists will be upset about will be rampant human rights abuses, war crimes, the continued acceleration of the decay of the middle class, the crumbling environment, and the general slide to the destruction of the country and possibly the world.
But I don't have your rose colored glasses of the time.
