Biden fancies himself a more impactful president than Obama

When Joe Biden was elected, many liberals’ best hope was that he would be a transitional president, an old-school Democratic bridge to a further-left future. Now, the word they are increasingly using is “transformational.”

Biden even huddled with historians in the East Room last month to talk about how important presidents achieved big changes in the past. The implication was clear: Biden was studying Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson because he wanted to be in the same league as his most successful liberal predecessors.