By Charles Lipson - RCP Contributor
Joe Biden was elected as a moderate-left Democrat, but he is not governing as one. He pledged repeatedly to work across party lines, but he is ramming through the biggest, most expensive progressive agenda in American history without any Republican votes. He is almost certain to try it again with his next two spending proposals, the largest since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs. As the White House pushes these mammoth bills with only Democratic votes, Americans are realizing they got a very different president from the one they bargained for, the one they were promised during the campaign. What’s unclear is whether they will recoil from this new reality.
Throughout the summer and fall, Biden ran as a unifier who could work
across party lines. He wanted to do so, he said, and he reiterated that
comforting message as late as his inaugural address. It was probably
his most important policy message, and Americans believed it. They
remembered his years in the Senate and his primary victory over
socialist Bernie Sanders..........To Read More....
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