• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Biden never was going to be a great president, lacking a a majority in both houses means you burn up too much political capital to get anything done that doesn’t already have broad bipartisan support. And with how divided politics is today compared to any point in history where we had a great president, there is no such thing as bipartisan today.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah, passing the new deal in the McCarthy era was cake.

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        6 hours ago

        … The new deal was passed 10 years before the McCarthy era. FDR was dead before McCarthy even started his red scare.