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I think our country is going to be openly and unashamedly fascist in less than ten years, personally. The PR people will come up with a better name for it (kind of like how they swapped out 'white nationalism' for Nazism) but it'll be functionally the same.
Biden is supposedly a progressive, but he's done too little as most of the country contends with a 30% to 50% increase in their cost of living. People aren't going to care that Trump/DeSantis are fascists if they're the candidate of change in the next election.
Sadly the phrase "it's the economy, stupid" is still relevant when it comes to voting.
There is only so much POTUS can do without the support of the Congress, and the House is currently controlled by people who would rather watch America fail than a Democrat succeed.
He had Congress for two years.
Obama had a supermajority for part of his presidency.
The problem isn't congressional control. It's that we have bipartisanship only for things that are absolutely shitty. That's why they can make 100+ billion appear out of thin air for another country's war, but won't spend a dime trying to help Americans affected by massive inflation.