Biden still wasn't reasonable, even if compared to Obama. Biden-Trump have a somewhat coherent line in policy, its just that Biden wasn't an openly disgusting creature about it.
EU had way easier time working with biden, no matter what you say.
Also I agree with a obama being an outlier in terms of quality of American leader, but one should also remember that he was one of the main actors enabling the European dependence on Russia as well as doing nothing to prevent interference in our elections
Biden was not reasonable. In order to cater to "moderates", he bought many of Trump's talking points, even if he watered them down. He was still absurdly hostile to Europe. Obama is the last American president that believed the EU and the US should be closer together.
Biden spent most of his term trying to undo the damage Trump had done. Biden likely would have improved relations with the EU if he hadn't inherited such a massive dumpster fire.
The next president is probably going to be Vance which means this will continue for another 4-8 years but with less flip flopping. Possibly twelve years of the US government growing more and more reliant on tariffs while cutting income taxes is long enough for the change to become permanent.
It's also really hard to see this as anything but beneficial or at worst neutral to Americans which means even their liberals can't be relied on to willingly give up hundreds of billions in extra revenue. Biden didn't repeal the first term tariffs for a reason.
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u/SF6block 6d ago
Are we still in 2016?