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{Flashback to May 2021} Yes, Biden is governing as a progressive. But that shouldn’t surprise you
LA Times ^ | May 16, 2021 | Doyle McManus

Posted on 01/10/2025 6:43:21 AM PST by Cronos

President Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abruptly to the left after he arrived at the White House.

“The bait was he was going to govern as bipartisan, but the switch is he’s governed as a socialist,” House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield complained last month.

“He talks like a moderate but is governing to satisfy the far left,” Senate Republican chief Mitch McConnell of Kentucky chimed in.

...They’re right on one count: Biden is pushing an ambitious progressive program while making it sound, well, moderate.

...they were forgetting one of Biden’s most striking features: his adaptability. He is — as critics used to say about FDR — something of a political chameleon.

Over 51 years in politics, Biden has always positioned himself at his party’s center — which has required a steady evolution toward the left.

The Biden of 2008 who ran as Obama’s running mate was more progressive than the Biden of 1994 who voted for Clinton’s crime bill. The Biden of 2012 who declared himself a fan of same-sex marriage was more progressive than the Biden of 2008.

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The Ds were pretty puffed up in 2021, thinking they had a "permanent voting base" and went hard left.
1 posted on 01/10/2025 6:43:21 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos
"that shouldn’t surprise you"


2 posted on 01/10/2025 6:47:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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3 posted on 01/10/2025 6:52:32 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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