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Joe Biden campaigned on being "not Trump", and the voters rewarded him for being "not Trump". Unfortunately, the voters also rewarded the obstructionist Republican Senate for being "not Trump" in 2018 and 2020, to the point where it took a Hail Mary of two runoff elections to give the Democrats a 50+1 majority in the Senate. You could, in theory, make the argument that being viewed as progressive as he is/was is what prevented a bigger blowout for Biden. Being able to stir up fears of progressivism and socialism were enough to hold seats like Susan Collins' in Maine, by having them serve as a counterbalance to a Democratic president.

That's the reason I was so depressed by the election results, even a week after when Biden was declared the victor. The message I got from those results was not a resounding "We saw what four years of GOP control looked like, and we want something better", but rather "We think Trump sucks, but we don't want the Dems to have too much control either." Honestly, you could say that the only reason we have a Democratic Senate is because Trump threw a temper tantrum after his loss and really fucked over the Georgia Senate races for his party.

I'm just super cynical overall. All the polling in the world doesn't matter if voters won't turn out regularly to vote in favor of those policies. Florida can vote for all the progressive ballot initiatives they want, and it won't matter if they keep personally voting Republican legislators who will do whatever they can to undermine those initiatives.

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