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As someone who knows far more than me about these things, would you agree that appointing Garland was Biden's biggest mistake?
Biggest mistake? No.
Garland is an albatross around Obama's neck, not Biden's.
We're getting into wonky territory with some heavy backseat polititing so buckle up.
Obama nominated Garland to SCOTUS to look reasonable to the Republicans. He wanted to nominate a moderate (read: Republican light) and wanted to move Senate Republicans away from the "we can't consider judges 18 months away from an election (but will have no problem considering judges under a Republican president when the election is mere weeks away)".
Obama wanted to take the high road and it worked for like a minute. His base was satiated that he did the best he could. Obama, behind closed doors, said that he didn't want to fight the Republicans.
But this was contingent on Democrats winning the White House AND Senate, which the polls at the time were showing that they would.
We of course know what happened.
Fast forward four years: Biden "felt bad" for not giving Garland a fair shake and did the best he could and nominated him as AG. I mean he was a half-joke nomination for SCOTUS. He shouldn't have even been on the short list for AG.
Anyway, not Biden's best decision but not his worst either.
Yeah, I knew about the McConnell and co shenanigans with the Supreme Court, and I understand why Obama did what he did and why Biden offered him the job. Garland just fucked it up so unbelievably bad. Democrat highroading needs to stop right now, but they never seem to learn their lessons.
What would you consider his worst decision? Probably running for a second term (at first) and thereby not letting a primary happen right?
Probably easiest to say running for a second term.
But for me, it was caving to republican pressure to "secure the border".
I don't know why Democrats have such a hard time learning that the Republicans will NEVER negotiate in good faith. He gave in too much.