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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's probably because he is anything but leftist.

[–] kttnpunk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah dude's a staunch conservative by any reasonable metric, regardless of what the democrats want everyone to think.

[–] K1nsey6 -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of his policies were too far right for even Reagan. But we are not supposed to talk about Biden's history prior to 2019.

[–] kttnpunk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People fail to acknowledge he was Obama's VP, too. Nobody wants to admit he's at least partly the reason Trump gained enough traction to come into office at all in the first place.

[–] K1nsey6 -2 points 1 year ago

Trump is Obama's legacy, had he not turned it on the typical neolib POS the party wouldn't have lost

[–] JustAManOnAToilet -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's leftist, you're just way out in looney toon land.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol sorry no. It's a result of the Overton window shifting so far right in the US that now some people think anti-labor (e.g., response to train worker strike) is somehow leftist. If you have a more complete understanding of the political spectrum you know better.