Considering its under the Biden admin that has lead to the Left literally starting to schism as their own base starts to side with Palestine over Israel because "brown is victim," I think he might be stuck holding the bag for the literal worst any president in the modern era has done for them.
I think he literally is one of the worst presidents of the modern era, and is actually towards the top with the worst in American history.
I still think it's something like:
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
James Buchanan
Franklin Roosevelt
Joe Biden
I think the only good news is that he's so fucking unpopular that he probably won't have the lasting catastrophic legacy of the others, and he didn't lead to the greatest human tragedies in our history.
The problem with him is that his "legacy" will be carried on by everyone. Not by name, but the policies and beliefs are foundational to his Party and we haven't even begun to get them to change their mind on it. Instead they will simply see him as not going far enough to being a secret Right-winger and double down. We are past the point of policy being tied to specific politicians and well into the Left-wing parties just being figureheads for TPTB.
In fact, their greatest legacy might be how hard they bungle those ideologies.
To be fair, it wasn't his legacy in the first place. We are living in the archetypal example of a beuracracy run wild. The agencies are running themselves, and as such no one is suffering any accountability, ever.
Contrast this with the Obama administration. When people fucked up, they fell on their sword to protect Obama's "legacy". No one is falling on their sword to protect Biden, because he's not in charge, they are, and they don't think they did anything wrong.
This means we have a systemic failure on our hands, and gradual reform is simply not possible. I am not invoking violent change, but it has to be aggressive reform. We can't fire 45,000 government employees, we have to fire 450,000, at least. Government has to be reduced to less than 10% of the GDP, at least. You have to economically decimate DC and it's surrounding federal colonies. Then on top of that, you have to have a full-scale changing of the elite. The entire neo-liberal order must be destroyed, and all of it's minions must be scattered to the winds. There is no head of this snake, we have to push so hard it gives us a cascade collapse. Then, like the Soviet Union and the Napoleonic Confederations before it, all at once, the entire Neo-Liberal order fucking Thanos Snaps out of existence.
I think very much that if Biden was still half as sharp as he was a decade ago, we'd see a lot of Obama repeats. People feel comfortable betraying him because they know he is feeble and cannot even remember things well enough to get revenge.
Its more of a show of how little loyalty they all have to anyone, rather than a demonstration of his power.
Considering its under the Biden admin that has lead to the Left literally starting to schism as their own base starts to side with Palestine over Israel because "brown is victim," I think he might be stuck holding the bag for the literal worst any president in the modern era has done for them.
I think he literally is one of the worst presidents of the modern era, and is actually towards the top with the worst in American history.
I still think it's something like:
I think the only good news is that he's so fucking unpopular that he probably won't have the lasting catastrophic legacy of the others, and he didn't lead to the greatest human tragedies in our history.
The problem with him is that his "legacy" will be carried on by everyone. Not by name, but the policies and beliefs are foundational to his Party and we haven't even begun to get them to change their mind on it. Instead they will simply see him as not going far enough to being a secret Right-winger and double down. We are past the point of policy being tied to specific politicians and well into the Left-wing parties just being figureheads for TPTB.
In fact, their greatest legacy might be how hard they bungle those ideologies.
To be fair, it wasn't his legacy in the first place. We are living in the archetypal example of a beuracracy run wild. The agencies are running themselves, and as such no one is suffering any accountability, ever.
Contrast this with the Obama administration. When people fucked up, they fell on their sword to protect Obama's "legacy". No one is falling on their sword to protect Biden, because he's not in charge, they are, and they don't think they did anything wrong.
This means we have a systemic failure on our hands, and gradual reform is simply not possible. I am not invoking violent change, but it has to be aggressive reform. We can't fire 45,000 government employees, we have to fire 450,000, at least. Government has to be reduced to less than 10% of the GDP, at least. You have to economically decimate DC and it's surrounding federal colonies. Then on top of that, you have to have a full-scale changing of the elite. The entire neo-liberal order must be destroyed, and all of it's minions must be scattered to the winds. There is no head of this snake, we have to push so hard it gives us a cascade collapse. Then, like the Soviet Union and the Napoleonic Confederations before it, all at once, the entire Neo-Liberal order fucking Thanos Snaps out of existence.
I think very much that if Biden was still half as sharp as he was a decade ago, we'd see a lot of Obama repeats. People feel comfortable betraying him because they know he is feeble and cannot even remember things well enough to get revenge.
Its more of a show of how little loyalty they all have to anyone, rather than a demonstration of his power.