America is famously a country where legislators and leaders ignore the policy preferences of voters and give elites everything they want. In that world, not voting - even when "democracy is on the ballot" - makes a lot of sense:
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained
But Biden did do some popular things that elites hated - fighting corporate power, price-fixing, rent-gouging, and other forms of predatory business conduct.
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