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In response to "Democrats have been souring on Biden since last summer. -- (link)" by Inigo

The CW is that he should be less ambitious and just "get stuff done". The CW is BS and his approval is low because he isn't progressive enough.

Posted by TWuG Feb 22 '22, 07:35

Forgive student loans, stop talking comity with the GOP, Hammer on the fillibuster and hang the lack of Senate action on Sinema and Manchin. He's entirely too cautious and unwilling to make the supposed "center" uncomfortable.

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Student loan forgiveness polling is a mixed bag. Forgiving all student loans does not poll well. - ty97 Feb 22, 07:57 3
- Biden is only able to cancel fed loan debt. And that's all he's being asked to do. As usual, Dem messaging misses saying that. - TWuG Feb 22, 08:01 1
  - Improved messaging would be good, but forgiving *all* of that debt has low support. - ty97 Feb 22, 08:09
- The vocal contingent of "Forgive all loans or we don't vote for Dems" is an exact representation of the party's issues. -- nm - MDH Feb 22, 08:01
Most of the things you mention in the IM are popular to a vocal twitter crowd, and no one else. -- nm - MDH Feb 22, 07:40 14
- You're wrong.Progressive policies are exceedingly popular. -- nm - TWuG Feb 22, 07:45 1
  - Virtually every progressive lost in 2020 and since then. They aren't winning, and neither are their policies. -- nm - MDH Feb 22, 07:47
- If anything they’re listening too much to the extremely Twitter crowd already. -- nm - spamlet Feb 22, 07:44 11
  - Agreed. Enough with getting rid of the filibuster. 2 Senators just won't do it. - Inigo Feb 22, 07:52 6
    - And: Fair or not, the President's party get hit with the failures to succeed. Trying to be like "Don't blame me, blame the Senate" doesn't really work - ty97 Feb 22, 07:54 4
      - But they're not any more inept than the Republicans under Trump. - Inigo Feb 22, 07:58 3
        
        I'm not arguing that any of it is fair!!! -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 08:10
        
        It’s a double standard though. Republicans don’t really need to pass anything to achieve their goals. Democrats do. -- nm - znufrii Feb 22, 08:02 1
        
        This. -- nm - TWuG Feb 22, 08:04
    - Agreed here as well. -- nm - MDH Feb 22, 07:54
  - YUP. Student Debt is absolutely radioactive to anyone not living in twittersphere and many people do not understand it. -- nm - MDH Feb 22, 07:48
  - Expand? I'm not sold on this? -- nm - ty97 Feb 22, 07:47 2
    - The Twitterverse is not at all reflective of the country as a whole but it’s what matters to who is in government. - spamlet Feb 22, 08:06 1
      - I agree that lefty Twitter is a loud minority. I'm not convinced that it is getting heavily oversized coverage in the media? - ty97 Feb 22, 08:12
See my post below. I think that's *part* of it but by no means the complete picture. - ty97 Feb 22, 07:38

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The CW is that he should be less ambitious and just "get stuff done". The CW is BS and his approval is low because he isn't progressive enough.

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