Seems like he would roll over mainly, but maybe ukraine wouldn’t happen, so no inflation shocks. Covid prolly samey. So in alternate timeline would be mildly ineffectual president? Although he likely wouldn’t sign “go fuck yourselves, railway workers” thingy
Re: COVID, there was a stark difference during the primary between Sanders and Biden. Sanders said they should postpone votes until things were better under control, while Biden insisted on going full-steam ahead. Just extrapolating off from there, it seems likely he'd not go back to "business as usual", and libs would still be wearing masks.
He would be undermined and sabotaged at every turn, though, so who knows?
I don't have a magic ball with me, but there's strong reasons to suspect he'd return to business as usual with maybe more lipservice being paid to masking and air filtering, perhaps OSHA's new covid regulations would've extended all the way to making HEPA filters mandatory which would've better than what we got wrt mandatory testing. I would also strongly suspect that WaPo, NYT, etc instead of running headlines about how uncessesary covid mitigation is, they would be slamming Bernie really hard on not having enough covid mitigation measures. So like you'd be getting people like Taylor Lorenz up the wazoo lol.
I think president decided rather little about whole policy, maybe more mask advocacy from :bern-disgust: but something like in-flights masking was done via courts, same as some other stuff. Choice is either to fight it or fold
Seems like he would roll over mainly, but maybe ukraine wouldn’t happen, so no inflation shocks. Covid prolly samey. So in alternate timeline would be mildly ineffectual president? Although he likely wouldn’t sign “go fuck yourselves, railway workers” thingy
Re: COVID, there was a stark difference during the primary between Sanders and Biden. Sanders said they should postpone votes until things were better under control, while Biden insisted on going full-steam ahead. Just extrapolating off from there, it seems likely he'd not go back to "business as usual", and libs would still be wearing masks.
He would be undermined and sabotaged at every turn, though, so who knows?
I don't have a magic ball with me, but there's strong reasons to suspect he'd return to business as usual with maybe more lipservice being paid to masking and air filtering, perhaps OSHA's new covid regulations would've extended all the way to making HEPA filters mandatory which would've better than what we got wrt mandatory testing. I would also strongly suspect that WaPo, NYT, etc instead of running headlines about how uncessesary covid mitigation is, they would be slamming Bernie really hard on not having enough covid mitigation measures. So like you'd be getting people like Taylor Lorenz up the wazoo lol.
I think president decided rather little about whole policy, maybe more mask advocacy from :bern-disgust: but something like in-flights masking was done via courts, same as some other stuff. Choice is either to fight it or fold