Biden blues: How the pragmatic moderate became the feckless ideologue

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Joe Biden always wanted to be president. He just never knew why.

A president who lacked strong priorities or firm beliefs took the White House in 2021 atop a party dominated by group politics. The groups knew what they wanted and knew what they believed, but of course, the various groups — racial, gender, gay, labor, et cetera — had diverging and even competing demands.

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