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This is a really important point.
The president is really only as good as his staff. They can only do so much as an individual person.
Joe Biden knows how to hire a good staff, and respects the limitations of hisnl office.
Meanwhile, if Trump could've harnessed the energy from his revolving door of "loyalists", we might've been able to stay under 2°C.
But, part of Project 2025 is actually planning to make 50,000 merit-based non-political positions (basically middle-management, and sometimes lower, at NASA or ATF or Dept of Education or FDA) into political appointments, and fire them if they don't toe the party line. In order to circumvent Congress and run everything unilaterally.
Are you telling me that a younger progressive would not have a good staff?
Yeah. That was a weird comment...
Biden supporters try to defend Biden, and always end up making the argument that trump is terrible and/or the president isn't important
So like, we should just replace him is the logical conclusion.
But that's the opposite of what they set out to say.
The president sets the tone of the administration. Ultimately they are the big boss, but they don't do everything.
I take issue with being called a Biden supporter. Biden is mediocre at best. I'dve much preferred if a more...motivational, I guess, DNC candidate in 2020. We obviously knew that whoever won would be 4 years older (and many more battle-worn) come re-election, and it's pretty unorthodox for any party to let the incumbents president be primaried. I can't think of a time.
In fact, I think the DNC was secretly hoping that Biden would've bit the dust 2 or 3 years in.