That's what this articles is about, but policies passed during the Biden admin have also been popular, though according to these sources some not well advertised enough.

https://navigatorresearch.org/one-year-after-passage-the-inflation-reduction-act-maintains-broad-support/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/politics/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-poll-support/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/poll-ukraine-aid-congress-b772c9736b92c0fbba477938b047da2f

I tried but it's harder to find polling on very specific executive department actions and regulations though, like the SAVE student loan repayment plan changes for example. So harder to say on those.

To be fair "have a beer with" is about trust.

If I can't sit down with you, have a beer, and enjoy myself, I can't trust you. A president is going to encounter unknown challenges and I need to trust them to solve it.

That being said Trump fails that test immediately. There is no version of "having a beer" with Trump where I could trust him.

Biden however? If you asked the average American what they know about Biden one of the top three answers is "having a beer", it's called "grabbing an ice cream" but the principal is the same.

I’m pretty sure I’d have a better time having a beer with Biden, even if he’s asleep, than Trump.

If the average voter is so stupid, why can't the democrats figure out how to appeal to them? Are democrats just too smart? Well I guess we're going to smart our way into fascism then!

hes mostly unpopular because the media dosnt cover 90% of the shit he does, and what they do cover they cover vaguely and don't credit him, because the media is heavily invested in another trump win because trump winning brings in ratings as people tune in every day to see what new horror he has released upon society, like they did in his first term.

Broadcast media has too much vested in a trump win to ever give biden appropriate coverage.

Its why all teh coverage of the debate was "BIDEN OLD, MUST QUIT" and almost nothing about trumps lies or the CNN moderator just letting trump go.

Imagine picking a Democratic candidate that can't even handle the bullshit from fox news and then acting all surprised when his polls start to tank.

He’s only unpopular because of bots, trolls, and the likes of fox “news”.

And a years-long campaign by Republicans to tap into people's prejudices against old people. Never mind they'd struggle to name one actual policy position they'd disagree and haven't bothered to learn of all the things they'd wholeheartedly support if they were just aware of them.

Just curious, what percentage of Americans do you think are under the influence of Russian bots? Because roughly a third voted for Trump and roughly a third didn't vote, add in third party voters and I'm pretty sure that would mean a supermajority of Americans are Russian assets, which is a fascinating perspective.

This quote from the article really hits home:

Afterward, his aides would try to explain that he had been sick. He had seen two doctors before the debate. He had a fever, a virus. He wasn't himself.

But while he may have been sick, he was himself. That was the problem.

Biden is a solid administrator, but a terrible campaigner / salesman. And the older he gets, the worse he gets at the latter. He’s always been bad at it, but these days he’s extra bad at it.

I don't think this is damage control. I mean maybe the timing of the article is but we've known for a long time that progressive policies are favored by a majority of Americans but progressive politicians aren't.

Not that Biden is progressive. But next to conservative regression anything will look progressive.

It might not but since you effectively have a binary choice, which Israeli policy do you prefer, Bidens or Trump.

if it's really a tie, then start looking at the other policies to see which is the lesser of the two evils.

Like he campaigned hard on unions, then he butchered rail workers bargaining power

It should be mentioned that the people he appointed to the NLRB have been hugely positive for union activity and power. Even with the railroad thing (which they did end up getting concessions on) Biden is still the most pro union president in our lifetimes.

He campaigned on renewable energy, then signed into law mandated sales of federal land for oil and gas extraction.

They also passed the largest climate bill ever.

affordable care act has an unintended flaw making millions of Americans too poor to qualify for any kind of assistance getting health insurance, he campaigned on fixing that gap

The GOP has blocked every single attempt at improving the ACA and has tried to repeal it dozens of times.

He's raised defense spending

Can you point to a someone who hasn't? Congress routinely increases military spending without the military even requesting more funding.

I get that half measures don't feel like wins, but when half the government is controlled by people who want to destroy it, they are. If we want sweeping legislation that fixes more issues, we have to strip enough power from the GOP to make it possible. Until we do that, half measures are really all we can hope for. We elect people because of their platform, and then we don't give them enough votes to pass legislation. I'm not saying the Democrats/Biden are flawless here, but we have to live in reality.