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Biden did the classic dipshit move of thinking you can just "ride it out" by never doing any at all... oh, except wars. We can fund the fuck out of two major conflicts. But even half-measuring with a huge portion of the base of voters/population generally? Nah. Best I can do is a drop in the bucket towards what is required to begin to force the US off fossil fuels. Make asylum and immigration overall easier and without the abhorrent threats of deportation for simply existing? Nah. How about we... build a beautiful wall! Someone once said that. Must've been a bright man! Healthcare? Hey, buddy. I already solved that with my friend Barrack! What are you kids complaining about?
Now Kamala is benefiting from clown 1 and clown 2 having proven they're fully in the tank for mass murder and nothing good. People are literally like "welp, she's different, holy fuck please god do something! And no not another war!"
Dems watched republicans never get held accountable for anything they do by their base and thought they could do the same thing.
The difference is that the right actually does what their base wants even if it's fucking stupid. The right forgives Trump because he's doing exactly what they want and missing off liberals.
Drms thought they could achieve the same results except instead of doing what their base wants they lecture their base that they don't understand how politics works and why nominating the crypt keeper is the smart political move.