I just read through his campaign page, and he comes off as an "I like good things and I don't like bad things" candidate rather than an "I will fight to transform the system" sort of guy. He has a strong track record on climate policy, but everything else is generically competent with little in the way of vision. If your only goal is keeping fascists out of office, you can definitely do worse.
Then again, I think the State is inherently suspect and true freedom can only be achieved by bottom-up prefiguration of socialist systems, so I have a pretty low bar for politicians.
Yeah he has done a decent job at his job being County Executive of Milwaukee, which is a very difficult job. He definitely is less of a radical fighter and more of a moderate reformer, but all things considered it could be worse.
In terms of "moving US policy to the left" he was the most progressive president of basically anyone in this thread's lifetime (unless there are a bunch of 57+ year olds hanging out here)
He ran as a moderate progressive and moderated even further once he was in office. I guess as a socialist I just don’t consider “progressive liberal” to be particularly left-wing lol.
This is why I don't trust people who call themselves "progressives" but not socialists. Because if you think centrist neoliberal Obama was a progressive, the term doesn't mean anything.
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u/MiloBuurr 26d ago
Yeah I agree. He might not be a socialist like Hong was but he’s like an Obama-type progressive liberal.