This article examines the lasting impact of Biden's presidency, focusing on his accomplishments that are likely to withstand a potential Trump return. It highlights the robust US response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a key achievement, alongside other notable policy successes.
But at the moment, Biden’s weightiest legacy appears to be an awful one: a disastrous final year in office that helped return Donald Trump to the White House. Last summer, as Biden clung to his party’s nomination, a senior Democratic strategist described to me, presciently, the stakes of the president’s sticking it out: “Everything will be seen as his fault. Every Senate seat lost, every House seat lost, every right that Trump takes away. You own everything.
” Biden finally quit the race, of course, but not until late July; the timing, coupled with his wide and deep unpopularity, helped put the Democrats in a deep political hole from which Kamala Harris did not climb out. And now, Trump will try to tear up many of the good things Biden did during his term. The former and future president spent a great deal of time on the 2024 campaign trail vowing to reverse Biden’s policies and positions on everything from transgender rights to immigration restrictions. Trump might also attempt to undo regulatory changes made during the final 60 days of Biden’s presidency. Yet for all the fulminating that may or may not turn into action, and for all the real damage Trump is sure to inflict, there are major Biden accomplishments that are Trump-proof. Three deserve particular recognition because they will have an impact, to varying degrees, on existential issues. Most starkly: Instead of engaging in isolationist posturing and weird sycophancy toward Vladimir Putin, the US pushed back aggressively against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, organizing international resistance and sending billions in American aid. Could Biden have defended Ukraine even more forcefully? Perhaps. “I think the piecemealing of sending weapons systems became a real obstacle to greater Ukrainian success,” says Michael Allen, a White House national security specialist under former president George W. Bus
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