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Permanent, meaningful changes or worthless executive orders that eventually get overturned? Because Biden got smacked down for trying to help with student loans and I'm certain SCOTUS would not tolerate executive changes to law enforcement or benefits or voting rights or abortion laws under a Democrat.
Yeah, let me remind you why SCOTUS has a Republican majority: because Mitch McConnell played the Senate like a fiddle and the complicit, cowardly Senate Democrats let him.
The fish may rot from the head down, but at this point the whole damn thing is rotten.
Also: you know the thing about programs that actually make people's lives better? They're popular.
Biden could have made policy via executive order in the first two years of his term; stumped aggressively to win Congressional majorities in the midterms based on the successes of his executive orders; and used his new Congressional majorities to turn his executive orders into law.
In other words, what Trump's doing, only with good policies.
But that would require Biden to actually have good policies and be physically and mentally healthy enough to stump for them. And we know neither of those were true.
It would have been nice to have some rulings stacked up against executive overreach before Trump though.