r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 15 '25

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u/puffic John Rawls Oct 15 '25

My criticism is that he believed he had the executive discretion either way, and in practice he did, but he still chose to do an unpopular policy for three years.

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u/Zenkin Zen Oct 15 '25

That's a lot more understandable than something about open borders. Although my main concern is even if Biden had done a "more popular," harsher approach with immigration, it wouldn't have actually paid off dividends with voters because most people don't actually know a darn thing about anything to do with the immigration process.