I would say that Biden did better than I had expected in the first half of his term and then more or less coasted off of that momentum through the second half. The probable dementia can't be ignored, but even without that he should've been doing more. He mostly stabilized shit, which is what a status-quo neolib is supposed to do, and he even expanded equitability and built framework for a better tomorrow, but he was I guess too humble to brag about it? He should've been holding up graphs every week and told the people "this is an improvement, and you may not be fully feeling it yet, but you will over time. I've expedited relief to get to you faster, but that means it's on the scale of years instead of decades. The downside of bureaucracy and democracy and proper checks and balances is that solutions can take time, but that's also a benefit in that any would-be malevolent authoritarian couldn't break everything overnight. Just hold on. We've stopped the bleeding, and now the healing takes a little time."
Instead, we got bounced from our hospital bed and immediately started picking at the scabs with a rusty knife. We're fucked. Tariffs? What a fucking moron. We'll be referring to turned-out pockets as trump flags by the end of the decade.