Quote (Black XistenZ @ Dec 20 2022 12:59pm)
A lot of major and quite lefty bills from Biden were one or two votes in the Senate away from becoming law. This allegedly "very moderate" legislative track record seems more like an accident than a deliberate strategy that Biden pursued since the start of his presidency. I would also argue that a lot of the things he did would be quite radical by the standards from 7 or 8 years ago, and only come across as comparatively moderate because the rest of his party has zoomed even further to the left since then.
Basically, what I've been saying for years still applies: Biden isn't an avowed moderate, or a radical liberal - he's an unideological opportunist who always positions himself in the middle of wherever his party is at any given moment. That's why he was talking about "kids growing up in racial jungles" in the early 70s, pushed for the "super predator" crime bill in the 90s, about Obama being "the first clean-shaven, well-spoken negro" in the mid-2000s and nowadays staffs his administration with drag queens and diversity hires.
if we were to translate "what type of policy is analogous to a cross dressing femboy" we'd end up with the green new deal, massive tax changes to corporations, new classes of hatespeech, etc. Not the lukewarm things like we've gotten. his attempt at college debt defaulting is imo the most radical thing he's attempted, otherwise he's milktoast.