Joe Biden was a president obsessed with his legacy, obsessed with civility.
My theory on why he was such a putz: historians traditionally graded Presidents on many metrics, one metric his ability to get things passed through congress or congressional relationships, points are deducted if his legislation does not pass.
The absolute easiest part about populism is using defeat as an advantage, paint your enemy relentlessly as out of touch, as against the worker, that your guys are the only ones on his side, and then try again, and again and again, show that you are willing to fight. If Republicans block a minimum wage hike, try again next month, and again and again and again. Why don't they do this? because...
Democrats are allergic to populism, even milquetoast Bernie Sanders style populism but that is the only path forward to fix things, we need more than 8 years and we are not even getting 4 years to fix the damn courts, they are filled to brim with ideologues leading to a corrupt potential eternal dictatorship. and Joe Biden is there twidling his thumbs going ahh shucks you guys Republicans are being meanies!
I will always consider him a failure I don't care about his soft landing, I don't care about his build back better, I don't care about his CHIPS act, I don't even care about his victory in Ukraine, and lets not even dwell on his failures like the Israel palestine war. His only job should have been preventing THE RETURN and I sure as hell will never forgive him for this. And will always argue he is bottom 5, Trump is at the absolute bottom scoring 0.0.