He was incredibly successful at tackling hidden charges, and dark patterns, and extra fees tacked on after the fact
The country ate alive the nicest, most well meaning president we've ever actually had as far as I can tell
Although of course he was up against every media company in the nation, all, including social media, controlled by about... 8 people or whatever
All they had to do was two things after trump’s first term debacle: - keep to trump’s remain in Mexico policy - have a fair primary (or stick to the person picked in the fair primary)
According to Gallup [1], only 47% of US Americans thought that immigration should decrease in 2020. That number had held more or less steady since at least 2000. But it grew steadily over Biden's term, reaching 88% in 2024. This, I believe, is a reflection of how the democrats shifted their rhetoric to be "tough on immigration". And it handed Trump a populace that was primed to be more susceptible than ever to his much more aggressive immigration rhetoric.
Of course, this is just a small part of a much bigger picture, but I don't exactly think it helped.
[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigratio...
Even if the Democrats had run a perfect campaign they might not have won. And they probably came closer than many peer groups in other nations
Domestic enforcement is 1/2 the problem. Controlling your border is the other half.
We have a gestapo kidnapping members of our community in the streets and the xenophobic propaganda still has you believing the most vulnerable and underpaid people in our society were ever a serious problem.
The migrants were a serious problem for democrats and youre still denying that.
Guess where Lina Khan is now.
Cf. Jimmy Carter
Part of the reason people liked him is he was not intrusive. He didn’t change his mind like Trump does.
The president needs to be clear-headed and cogent as much of the time as is reasonable. Biden is and was far beyond that. So is Trump for that matter.
For instance, Trump has said "oranges" instead of "origins", said that Hannibal Lector was a late and great person, praised pedophiles...
And where's the wall to wall coverage of that like there was when Biden screwed up that debate? Where's the weeks on end coverage of those stumbles? How come ABC doesn't even show the public when Trump calls _their own_ reporters piggy and tells them they're incompetent?
Not detached from reality, but thanks for the lame, no effort comment.
Similarly! Where were the weeks of coverage for the IRA which expanded energy production in this country (which most of my friends don't even know what the acronym stands for)
Where was the coverage for the semiconductor act which added 500bn in semiconductor manufacturing.
Biden wanted to do a land on the moon type quest to cure cancer, how much cooler would that have been for our nation than ICE raids on farm workers.
The man was incredibly successful, and barely anyone realizes that, and that's what I'm talking about.
