Tornado Alley (PROG)

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B402, Looks a good book. I'm sure most all in the party and more who voted Democrats would agree with much in it. Achievements and policy like:

[...]Biden’s Legacy: Major Accomplishments but Unfinished Business
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the pandemic relief bill, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act—that advanced a number of critical, overlapping goals. They helped revive the economy and spur job growth. They directed investments to regions hit hard by deindustrialization, seeking to build back the nation’s middle class. They advanced the nation’s economic security, repatriating manufacturing and supply chains in critical sectors and investing in the United States’ competitive edge in semiconductors and artificial intelligence. The Inflation Reduction Act stands out as the nation’s largest investment ever in clean energy and climate action.
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A Nation Divided

Yet despite this impressive list of accomplishments, Biden withdraws from the race no doubt frustrated that he could not do more to heal the nation. Part of the problem is that he ran out of time. Indeed, even if he had served a second term, he would have run out of time. Rebuilding the middle class and, along with it, the nation’s political center, will take—under the best of circumstances—a generation or two. New infrastructure takes years to complete; new manufacturing plants are still in the pipeline; workers need time to be retrained. Moreover, adding new manufacturing jobs is not the answer to the problems facing the nation’s deindustrialized heartland. The challenge is to secure well-paying jobs in the service sector, which is where most Americans will of necessity work in the digital age. Thinking through how to tackle that challenge has only just begun.

Biden also ran into resistance from Congress. His Build Back Better proposal initially envisaged some $3.5 trillion in domestic spending. But Congress stripped out many of the provisions that would have had the most immediate and telling impacts on working Americans, including free prekindergarten, free community college, government-subsidized family leave, and the child tax credit. Biden tried to go big in an effort to improve the lives of millions of hurting Americans, but he could not convince Congress to go along—in part due to legitimate concerns about inflation and mounting public debt.

Biden also stumbled on immigration. He initially increased refugee quotas, ended family separation, and reinstated previous asylum procedures—all part of an effort to “rebuild a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system that was gutted by the previous administration.” But the southern border was soon overwhelmed. Patrols encountered some 2.2 million migrants crossing the southern border illegally in 2022, an all-time high. Despite important innovations, such as the introduction of an app that allowed asylum seekers in Mexico to schedule an appointment at a U.S. port of entry, political necessity forced Biden to let pragmatism prevail over principle. Pressure was mounting within his own party, with Democratic mayors in major urban centers—Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York—struggling to provide shelter and support to the thousands of migrants arriving in their cities. Biden had no choice but to pivot back to more stringent measures aimed at stemming the migrant flow.

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Writing books and arguing for more progressive policies is positive, but if you can't get legislation through little comes of the good works.

i ask you again, what positive for the homeless and middle class America have Republicans done in the last half century. Above is some of what Democrats have accomplished. Your turn to give the board a short list, like the ones above, which the GOP has accomplished or tried to get through. Think SCOTUS has been recreated in a Putinesque image. DeSantis and others have banned more books. The GOP have made it virtually impossible in many states for women to gain a safe and affordable abortion. There must be other recent GOP achievements which have made life better for struggling families. OH! Trump tax cuts. Who did that effort at help the most. Am looking forward to your contribution the discussion point.

As unlikely as it is, just perhaps Trump could mellow in favor of a good legacy rather than being remembered as a criminal asshole. You think all those involved with The Heritage's Agenda 2025 would allow him to do that?

I think it's likely many voters, and nonvoters, did not go through many of the considerations available to them.

Oh, the main reason i replied here, a link which could be your source ..
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197103196-second-class .

Next time i will be much more likely to simply delete your post.

PS: Obviously Cent Uygur, with all his effort, has not helped gain much support for the progressive
policies he promotes. Wonder if he is as critical of his own efforts as he is of the Democrats.