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How Biden Surprised Progressives
To the departing president, F.D.R. seemed a guiding, if often elusive, star.
“President Biden, when he came into office, said that he would be the most progressive president since F.D.R., and I think on domestic issues — not on foreign policy — on domestic issues, he has kept his word,” Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, said shortly after Biden’s loss.
“When it comes to domestic policy, President Biden probably would go down as one of the most effective presidents that centered the working class,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, told me this afternoon
Shortly after Biden took office in 2021, Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut and a longtime member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, visited Biden in his office with other high-ranking House Democrats. She looked at the portrait of Roosevelt and told Biden that F.D.R. had lifted seniors out of poverty by creating Social Security. Biden, she said, could do the same for children by establishing a child tax credit — which he did that year.
“He took the side of working men and women in this country, and that’s where he came from,” DeLauro said.
God bless Joe Biden
The most progressive president of our lifetimes
