Honestly, Biden was a worse president than George W. Bush. Part of that is distance from the beast and all of the memory holing of the Bush years, yes.
But in pure, practical terms, Biden succeeded arguably the second-worst president of our lifetime, reset the Overton Window for every bar at or lower than the second-worst president left them. He explicitly dismantled the popular left-wing (albeit captured) movement that he entered office alongside. Then, he positioned that same guy to come back into office with a mandate to pointedly lower the bar even further, now completely unhinged by any institutional checks whatsoever.
Like. As much as "the worst president of the 21st century" is actually the Democratic Party as a whole, Biden's role in history was literally prolonging Hitler's reign and making Hitler worse. On purpose. "For your own good."
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The temptation to rationalize Biden as a good president based on policy rather than as the worst president based on his effect is a liberal reaction. By that, I mean it is exactly the kind of reaction that the system is designed to make you believe matters because it aligns with the interests of the rich and powerful. It is not real. It was never real. Things are worse because things are worse.
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