and then many progressives spent years attacking him for not being committed to student debt relief as he forgave billions in debt.
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Biden was the most progressive domestic policy president since LBJ, and it isn’t even close.
aug 11, 2025, 12:49 am • 8 1 • view
talk about a low bar—no one votes on that basis. He sacrificed every economic promise he made in 2020—CTC, paid family leave, minimum wage, expanded Medicare—to the politically useless bipartisan infrastructure bill. Compared to what Trump rammed through with no margin, Biden looks like a chump.
aug 11, 2025, 1:04 am • 1 0 • view
What did Trump "ram through with no margin"? You're also talking about all this stuff Biden managed to get done with a 50/50 Senate and 2 of them were Manchin and Sinema. The answer to that problem isn't to then elect more Republicans.
aug 11, 2025, 8:23 am • 2 0 • view
You're approaching this from the angle of how progressives critiqued Biden. But what mattered wasn't them, it was the 42.5 million Americans of mixed ideology who hold $1.6 trillion in student debt. People know when their loan payments restart, a few months before the election. It can't be messaged.
aug 11, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
Biden forgave—outright forgave—billions in debt. Those people didn't have to pay anymore on debt. The thing is, you just dislike Biden, and so you don't give a shit that he helped people.
aug 11, 2025, 2:05 am • 9 0 • view
there are lots of reasons to dislike Biden! but insisting that his massive efforts re student debt relief don't matter is an own goal. you're telling every presidential candidate that htis issue doesn't matter.
aug 11, 2025, 2:05 am • 9 0 • view
if pols embrace the movement, they just make themselves more vulnerable. trying to get change opens them up to people blaming them when it doesn't go through. best to just ignore it.
aug 11, 2025, 2:06 am • 5 0 • view
refusing to give pols credit for progress tells them you're not serious and don't really care; it's just a way to express your antipathy. they'll ignore you in future.
aug 11, 2025, 2:07 am • 3 0 • view
like, you're telling D pols to ignore you; that unless they magically make gop opposition disappear, you'll blame them for anything but absolute victory. why would they want to work with you? why bother?
aug 11, 2025, 2:08 am • 2 0 • view
Biden forgave 9% of student debt, leaving 91% intact. It's not me and my antipathy who is the problem, it's the 91% of borrowers who got nothing and who voted accordingly. It's the money that didn't get injected back into the economy. Voters don't tally points.
aug 11, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
Biden forgave my $50,000 student debt - he made Public Service Loan Forgiveness work, for the first time ever.
aug 11, 2025, 3:10 am • 4 0 • view
Ok and I'm glad for you, but there is over $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt right now, and limited forgiveness programs targeted to public service or other criteria like income didn't have the broad political impact Dems needed last year.
aug 11, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
He tried broader relief, and the Supreme Court blocked it.
aug 11, 2025, 3:57 am • 3 0 • view