If you want to get a full sense of why so many Democrats seem to be
frustrated with President Joe Biden at the moment, here’s one piece you
need to read: “Is Biden a Man Out of Time?” by The Atlantic’s Ronald
Brownstein.

Whether the specific issue is abortion rights, court reform, voting
rights, the filibuster, or the DOJ’s investigation into Donald Trump's
attempts to overturn the 2020 election, “[m]any Democrats share a sense
that … Biden and his team have been following, not leading. And that
tendency points to an enduring question about Biden, who was first
elected to the Senate in 1972 and was shaped by a clubbier, more
cooperative Washington. Can he be the inspirational leader his party
needs to counter the aggressive moves by Republicans in Congress and in
the states, together with their appointees on the Supreme Court, to
reverse long-held civil rights and even threaten democracy itself?” 

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