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You're 100% right about this, and I missed this in my criticism. Appointing Merrick Garland as AG is probably Biden's biggest fuck up.
Comment by EmmerdoesNOTrepme at 03/02/2025 at 19:30 UTC
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And the other, was/is his inability to *really*, truly grasp that the old-school "disagree on *Policy*, but agree on the Good of the Country" ways of dealing in the Senate, and in worldwide politics as a *whole* (see also, Bibi's running of the Israeli Government & embracing of hard-liners/rightwingers like Ben-Givr and Smotrich) are GONE nowadays.
Biden honestly thinks that there is just a "disagreement" that needs to be worked through, and that folks on both sides of the aisle *do* recognize the full humanity and "inherent good" of those on the other side.
He doesn't understand that there are pot-stirrers (to use the G-rated term), on both sides, and that we *literally* have folks on the far right, who want to eliminate certain groups of people from the ace of the earth, and who do *not* see the groups *they* consider "out groups" or "outsiders" to even be human beings.
(Edited to finish a sentence)