Biden has delivered on most of his main campaign promises: control COVID, restore the economy, invest in green infrastructure, and lower drug prices. His main broken promise was to reform immigration.
He has forgiven over $100 billion in student debt, as well as spent over $3 billion on HBCU debt relief / tuition breaks. I also credit him with the recent upswing in union membership, due to aggressive lawsuits by the NLRB against Starbucks, Tesla, etc (and yes those actions more than outweigh his handling of the BNSF strike).
He didn’t raise the minimum wage, but raising the minimum wage has been part of the DNC platform since at least 1988 (when Dukakis ran). I don’t fault him for not having the necessary Senate supermajority, same as every other president.
The current strategy is not “shut up and vote for us while we start WWIII” (for one thing, very few people are worried about WW3). If anything, the current strategy is “We delivered a lot of things that Democrats wanted”. Which is true, even if the message isn’t getting out.
Finally, of course I hold the DNC accountable for winning elections. They have exceeded my expectations on that part, I would not expect >50% of vote in nearly all national elections. They got a majority even when running less charismatic candidates like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
And if Biden provided a few things I wanted (he has) and Democrats are still capable of winning a majority of the vote (they are) then I don’t care at all about the inner workings of the party.
The Democrats forced someone with massively underwater approval numbers on their electorate in 2016, keeping all “serious” candidates out of the field (which is why Bernie ran to begin with as a “if nobody will run I guess I will”) and called people like me calling for RBG to retire while she could be replaced to save abortion rights “sexist” for being skeptical that opening a rift to the girlboss universe by Clinton appointing RBG’s replacement at midnight on a full moon or whatever wasn’t worth risking the legality of abortion in America.
The DNC has a history of playing with fire while facing Donald Trump specifically and getting burned, while setting everything on fire. According to reporting even Obama is horrified that Biden is overtly making no effort to be re-elected. He’s hardly started to organize in swing states even, and per all reporting seems to literally have no plan.
I think you have a rose-tinted view of the Democrats ability to function in the most basic ways, much less win elections, and especially in the case of Biden, who has never won an election where he wasn’t an incumbent or running against someone who mismanaged a pandemic during that pandemic (except during the Nixon administration). In 2020, he literally called an Iowa voter “fats” and challenged him to a fist fight (wonder why he didn’t win). This man has no record of actually winning competitive races without a massive advantage and is literally currently underwater while Trump overperformed polls by like 15 points in 2020. This just seems to me like running the Titanic into the glacier with no attempt to avoid disaster.
Biden has delivered on most of his main campaign promises: control COVID, restore the economy, invest in green infrastructure, and lower drug prices. His main broken promise was to reform immigration.
He has forgiven over $100 billion in student debt, as well as spent over $3 billion on HBCU debt relief / tuition breaks. I also credit him with the recent upswing in union membership, due to aggressive lawsuits by the NLRB against Starbucks, Tesla, etc (and yes those actions more than outweigh his handling of the BNSF strike).
He didn’t raise the minimum wage, but raising the minimum wage has been part of the DNC platform since at least 1988 (when Dukakis ran). I don’t fault him for not having the necessary Senate supermajority, same as every other president.
The current strategy is not “shut up and vote for us while we start WWIII” (for one thing, very few people are worried about WW3). If anything, the current strategy is “We delivered a lot of things that Democrats wanted”. Which is true, even if the message isn’t getting out.
Finally, of course I hold the DNC accountable for winning elections. They have exceeded my expectations on that part, I would not expect >50% of vote in nearly all national elections. They got a majority even when running less charismatic candidates like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
And if Biden provided a few things I wanted (he has) and Democrats are still capable of winning a majority of the vote (they are) then I don’t care at all about the inner workings of the party.
The Democrats forced someone with massively underwater approval numbers on their electorate in 2016, keeping all “serious” candidates out of the field (which is why Bernie ran to begin with as a “if nobody will run I guess I will”) and called people like me calling for RBG to retire while she could be replaced to save abortion rights “sexist” for being skeptical that opening a rift to the girlboss universe by Clinton appointing RBG’s replacement at midnight on a full moon or whatever wasn’t worth risking the legality of abortion in America.
The DNC has a history of playing with fire while facing Donald Trump specifically and getting burned, while setting everything on fire. According to reporting even Obama is horrified that Biden is overtly making no effort to be re-elected. He’s hardly started to organize in swing states even, and per all reporting seems to literally have no plan.
I think you have a rose-tinted view of the Democrats ability to function in the most basic ways, much less win elections, and especially in the case of Biden, who has never won an election where he wasn’t an incumbent or running against someone who mismanaged a pandemic during that pandemic (except during the Nixon administration). In 2020, he literally called an Iowa voter “fats” and challenged him to a fist fight (wonder why he didn’t win). This man has no record of actually winning competitive races without a massive advantage and is literally currently underwater while Trump overperformed polls by like 15 points in 2020. This just seems to me like running the Titanic into the glacier with no attempt to avoid disaster.