Quote (Goomshill @ 31 Jan 2024 16:44)
Biden has been getting shellackings from the left for abandoning his promised climate agenda. He's gone even more anti-immigration than Trump was prior to the pandemic, he's carrying on the remain in mexico policy, the mass deportations. Its simply not true that Biden has been throwing the doors open, Trumpsters might want to keep saying that and pointing to it as a major campaign point, but the difference is the post-covid economy and no more covid excuse total shutdown with much bigger immigrant waves- in spite of Biden's more prohibitive policies. He's inching up to pre-covid deportation order levels while stuffing in more judges, its just that the flood of encounters, unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers is twice what it was pre-covid
None of this adds up. Border crossings began to skyrocket as soon as Biden took office, in early 2021, when covid was far from over, many states were still in varying degrees of lockdown and the post-covid economic recovery hadn't even begun yet. His DoJ is actively fighting tooth and nail in courts across the country against any ground-level efforts to reduce the influx of migrants. He rescinded Remain in Mexico as soon as he could and only reinstated it because courts forced him to. His DHS secretary is mass paroling people into the country although he doesn't have to. And the rhetoric and messaging coming out of the Biden admin is a major reason why there was a surge in unaccompanied minors and asylum in the first place, yet Biden hasn't really taken any meaningful steps toward reversing this messaging.
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And its like like Trump or Biden are differing significantly on their approach to Israel or Iran right now. Israel might have little reason to trust any democrat in the long run, but he completely rejected the idea of restarting the Obama Iran Deal and even when he threw a bone to his progressives like unlisted the houthis/unrwa, he went right back and flipped 180 and relisted them again.
It took him 2 years to relist them, and stopping funding for the UNRWA was inevitable in light of the accusations against them. His support for Israel only stretches as far as it has to, he has a horrible personal relationship with Bibi and is constantly applying pressure on Israel to tone down their Gaza campaign.
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Biden's got serious flaws, and in particular the things he fucks up before he makes any attempt to fix them, or leaves broken. Afghanistan and Ukraine for starters. And more than anything, his authoritarian and tyrannical streak, nobody has ever tried as hard to tear down our civil society since Lincoln forged it anew with cannons. But his issue isn't that he's a radical leftist
I never claimed that Biden was a radical leftist, just that his policies differ significantly from Trump.
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I agree with the statement that Biden is only adopting Trump-like positions after he fails miserably and is forced to, whether by geopolitical necessity or overwhelming unpopularity domestically. But the end result isn't far off, except yes on Ukraine where they definitely would have diverged. But its just not the case that Biden has been some crazed progressive wackadoodle throwing the gates open- he's betrayed his liberal base on so many issues its hard to list them all. He betrayed unions the first chance he got lmao. He won the election on Covid lockdowns and denouncing Trump's handling of the pandemic, then lifted all mandates a few hours before giving his state of the union speech and here we are in a major wave and the CDC doesn't even publish tracking numbers anymore (check the wastewater stats). Obama and Biden and Trump have all been far more draconian on immigration enforcement than any of their predecessors, Trump might have wanted to build a wall but Obama locked them in cages and Biden has been ramping up the mass deportations again.
Sorry, but you sound completely off today, almost as if someone hacked your account.
