Dylan Scott

I think there's a lot of indications that that happened because all their energy was on the student loan thing. It turns out they can't do that the Supreme Court says is illegal, but they spent all their time on it and they weren't doing the normal functioning of the department of getting financial aid to people who need it right now. I think that's a real cautionary tale.

You need to just run the government well. And all these... sort of exotic uses of presidential powers to do things that Congress won't let you do. There's no magic wand.

You need to just run the government well. And all these... sort of exotic uses of presidential powers to do things that Congress won't let you do. There's no magic wand.

You need to just run the government well. And all these... sort of exotic uses of presidential powers to do things that Congress won't let you do. There's no magic wand.

I think his age probably has something to do with it. But I think something you hear from both admirers and critics of Joe Biden is that he goes where the party's going. In the 80s, when you had to be sort of like a moderate Democrat to get anywhere, he was talking about the death penalty and being tough on crime.

I think his age probably has something to do with it. But I think something you hear from both admirers and critics of Joe Biden is that he goes where the party's going. In the 80s, when you had to be sort of like a moderate Democrat to get anywhere, he was talking about the death penalty and being tough on crime.

I think his age probably has something to do with it. But I think something you hear from both admirers and critics of Joe Biden is that he goes where the party's going. In the 80s, when you had to be sort of like a moderate Democrat to get anywhere, he was talking about the death penalty and being tough on crime.

Then you move to the Obama years, and he's like a loyal Obama Democrat.

Then you move to the Obama years, and he's like a loyal Obama Democrat.

Then you move to the Obama years, and he's like a loyal Obama Democrat.

You move to 2020 and he sort of soaks up a lot of this like Bernie and Warren energy and moves left during the general election in a kind of surprising way.

You move to 2020 and he sort of soaks up a lot of this like Bernie and Warren energy and moves left during the general election in a kind of surprising way.

You move to 2020 and he sort of soaks up a lot of this like Bernie and Warren energy and moves left during the general election in a kind of surprising way.

He sort of moves with the party. And I think that is a very sensical thing to do as a safe state Democrat in the Senate. Like, that is probably the optimal strategy. It's really bad in an executive. You need someone who has opinions.

He sort of moves with the party. And I think that is a very sensical thing to do as a safe state Democrat in the Senate. Like, that is probably the optimal strategy. It's really bad in an executive. You need someone who has opinions.

He sort of moves with the party. And I think that is a very sensical thing to do as a safe state Democrat in the Senate. Like, that is probably the optimal strategy. It's really bad in an executive. You need someone who has opinions.

Well, nothing like Charlottesville happened when Biden was president, so I'll give him that in the very most narrow of senses. I think...

Well, nothing like Charlottesville happened when Biden was president, so I'll give him that in the very most narrow of senses. I think...

Well, nothing like Charlottesville happened when Biden was president, so I'll give him that in the very most narrow of senses. I think...

If you think more broadly as the Trump era was an era not just of sort of organized racism, but of corrupt patronage, sort of familial-based circles of nepotism and self-dealing, I found his decision to pardon Hunter predictable, but sort of the ultimate punchline on that aspiration.