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Biden has not governed from the center right, at least during his presidency.
He's advanced concrete LGBTQ rights more than probably any other president.
People talk about him like they have not been paying any attention to the three years of policy and legislation he's pushed through that advancing civil rights, and it's probably because they aren't paying attention and it's easier to complain then comprehensively analyze the candidates.
trump is a rapist who doesn't care about hurting people for his own gain, so it's pretty easy to analyze him, but these two candidates couldn't be farther apart. In terms of domestic and foreign policy, civil rights, economic policy, it's just they're nothing like at all.
Lazy equivocative articles like this are useless or worse because they're spreading misinformation that Biden, who has actively helped tens of millions of people with his policies, is as bad as Trump, who has actively hurt untold millions with his policies.
The trick is to make up your mind on him before he gets sworn in, then it's easy to dismiss any progress as "not far enough" or "just doing it to get re-elected"
Got no horse in this race, but wouldn't "doing it to get re-elected" be a good thing? Isn't that how democracies are supposed to work?
In a way, but since you can only be US president for two terms, "doing it to get re-elected" means that you don't believe they'll continue doing whatever they're doing during their second term if you re-elect them.