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xingkerui
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Political Matrix E: -6.52, S: -3.91
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« on: October 01, 2021, 12:48:25 PM » |
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Overall, option three. Better than Obama, given that he's working with a much smaller majority, but there's definitely more he could do. I don't think there was any good way for him to handle Afghanistan, and pulling out was the right thing to do, so I don't blame him for that. He needs to play hardball with Sinema and company, since they're a direct threat to him literally getting more than 5% of his agenda passed. I know that we're not going to see Medicare for All or the type of minimum wage increase that people need, but Biden shouldn't be afraid of putting enormous pressure on Democratic holdouts to at least make meaningful progress on these issues.
Immigration is something that I'm uniformly unhappy about. It was, in my opinion, the absolute worst and most cruel element of Trump's presidency and he unfortunately shifted the U.S. lightyears to the right on that issue to the point where being indifferent about inhumane treatment of all immigrants and wanting to reduce all immigration became mainstream, and I've been very disappointed not to see much change. The incompetence of USCIS has become comical during the pandemic, and he has not done anywhere near enough to properly handle the situation at the border or people who are essentially stuck in limbo thanks to their process being delayed by COVID and USCIS processing visas and green cards many times slower than usual. I'm honestly worried that the goalposts will be moved even further to the extreme on this issue, and that the next Republican president will go much further than Trump, in part thanks to Biden not making sufficient effort to completely undo the damage Trump did.
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