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I find the fact that he got basically no credit for some really significant domestic policy achievements to be a very bad sign, yeah it shouldn’t be as hard as it is for people to acknowledge that he has actually been good on a lot of fronts
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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In place of creating organized group(s) around <policy issue> we’ve created a culture around <policy issue> with little to consensus building tools or organized structure that can acknowledge when <policy issue> is addressed. Its very not poggers
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@scoaliera.bsky.social
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Honest to God, I think it's the (lack of) media. He's gotten a lot done, but we no longer have default broad-audience media that will bother to explain any of it. If you're not specifically following specialist policy media, you probably don't know about it and don't understand it if you do.
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Chris Broome
@cabroome.bsky.social
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I have a lot of thoughts on this phenomenon, a major one being that I don’t think most people know how government works in any broad sense, both on the left and the right. Too many people hold it against Biden that he didn’t snap his fingers and enact his agenda on day one
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Great Boo’s Up 🇵🇸 ✊🏽
@frankie-gomez.bsky.social
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I find this to be a really disappointing take. I guess I assumed you were anti-capitalist. But if you think Biden should get “credit” for pro-capitalist policies, that’s clearly not the case.
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Scott #ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉
@smenor.com
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😂
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Eulogy
@eulogy.bsky.social
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I live near a national monument that's getting fixed up and when you drive in it says the improvements are brought to you by the bipartisan infrastructure law. That's so stupid and typical dumb democratic party bullshit. It should have a picture of dark Brandon and say it's from Biden and Dems.
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Talleyrando
@michaeloak.bsky.social
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I think those who are most upset about the genocide almost perfectly overlap with the set of leftists who otherwise would embrace Biden’s achievements is a big pet of this story. Really hard to speak well of someone helping to accomplish a genocide, even if they’ve performed well in other areas.
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ramza saddiq
@heartgold.xyz
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It's too bad "helping kill children" eclipses "got some student loan forgiven"
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Linen Coat
@linencoat.bsky.social
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I think people acknowledge the good he's done on especially labor and anti-trust, and the attempts on student loans, but the "actively supporting genocide in Palestine" thing tends to override it (and rightly so...)
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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But the aesthetics of old guard Dem Joe Biden doing through skillful administration what their preferred candidate you've never heard of would do through big, beautiful labor strikes that disrupt the country offends
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Rusty Ralston, the ðude. 🍉
@imrustyokay.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, his response to Gaza has soured that progress. It's kind of like how a lot of people on the left don't care for LBJ much. Like, he had some great progressive successes, it's just soured by the Vietnam War.
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Fuzzy Mike
@fuzzymike.bsky.social
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aside from union support which he has genuinely exceptionally good on, all the leftist successes of his administration happened before 2023, he responded to them by hiring jeff zeints to put a stop to them, and it’s not unserious for leftists to notice that
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Vinchenzo the Jackal
@vinchenzojackal.bsky.social
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The problem is also not that people are refusing to acknowledge he did any good (because the mass-majority of his leftist and progressive critics acknowledge he has done good things) but because the bad is so extreme that they cannot help but stand for their principles and defend their communities.
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Vinchenzo the Jackal
@vinchenzojackal.bsky.social
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Biden has also had more right-wing policy and extreme right-wing policy than Obama, so in spite of Biden's many left-wing policies being plentiful, the right-wing policy is so extreme that the left shuns Biden, especially since Biden and Democrats want to keep his leftist accomplishments secret.
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Vinchenzo the Jackal
@vinchenzojackal.bsky.social
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It is not the fault of the left that the left views Biden so poorly. In fact, it reflects poorly on democrats, and not on the left. Democrats intentionally choose not to promote their leftist achievements to avoid offending their donors, so most leftists have no knowledge of his leftist policy.
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Chris Parker
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tbf that also shortchanges the congress that got stuff accomplished with two fickler corporate ringers and a tiny house majority
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Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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Democratic electeds and donors refuse to build aligned media at scale then complain to corporate press that they’re not getting good coverage.
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Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
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Some of the left is driven by a kind of messianic politics, a belief that a great leader can bring the millennium. Biden doesn't look like their image of the prophesied messiah, so he must be a false messiah and therefore anathemized.
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Neon Chinchilla
@neonchinchilla.bsky.social
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The farther you go left, or right, the more willing people are to burn it all down over their personal positions. There has been a revolt on the far right about Trump, or his VP pick, not being far enough right. "My way or no way for any of us!" is a pretty popular thing for both groups.
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Harvey Manfrenjensenden
@whipchatterly.bsky.social
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I think a lot of that has to do with a lack of messaging as to his actual achievements by his own admin and a complete reliance of online blue dog dinguses still litigating their 2016 talking points. I get zero emails about how my donations help enact policy just "trump bad I'm scared send $$$ plz"
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Bipolar Viscountess
@sharilyn.bsky.social
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IMHO I think it's complicated! He steamrolled some VERY popular farther-left alternatives to get the nomination in 2020, and quite a few of the arguments against Biden *four years ago* included his advanced age. I also think that his Gaza policy has really hurt him on the left.
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Ohai
@bop.bsky.social
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He passed the largest climate bill in history. It took a lot of time, effort, and political capital. And if the response from the most environmentally conscious constituency to this is, "meh", then the Dems will learn climate action is a politically losing strategy - and they'll be right
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Chris in SF
@chrismsf.bsky.social
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He likes genocide. That’s a non-starter
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