Most worrying of all is the apparent problems Biden has in producing a comprehensive agreement on Voting, as this is emerging as one of the defining issues of Trump's legacy and is so saturated in America's problem of Race it is incredible that anyone can deny the existence of Institutional Racism in the USA.
For the key purpose behind the attempts in various States to 'reform' their voting system is simple:
STOP BLACK PEOPLE VOTING. It is a matter of fact that the 1890 Act in Mississippi that first denied the vote to anyone convicted and imprisoned of a crime has been amended, but never repealed, and that in its origins, it was explicit in its attempt to
STOP BLACK PEOPLE VOTING.
"The
Mississippi officials met in the heat of summer with a singular goal in mind:
stopping Black people from voting.
“We came here to exclude the Negro,” said the convention’s president. “Nothing short of this will answer.” " (My emphasis in Bold)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ericans-voting
In addition, the Trump-Inspired campaign against Democracy draws into its orbit other Minorities, for the simple reason that the Republican Party has given up trying to appeal to them, even though most immigrants are natural conservatives who don't want the benefit of Federal or State aid to get by, thus begging the question: Is the Republican Party a Conservative Party?
That the US in 2022 has so many States determined to take away the right to vote, while the Biden Presidency appears to be struggling to protect, even to extend it, underlines the Legitimacy Crisis that is threatening to break the Union. That prominent supporters of Trump simply refuse to appear before the House Committee investigating the attack on the US on Jan 6 2021 emphasis the cleavage that has opened up, with elected officials expressing nothing more than contempt for the political system they have sworn oaths to protect and defend.
That said, while Biden's domestic agenda is tame by my standards, I think it has long term benefits for the US, but only if it gets through, and the money is invested with the intention of making that Infrastructure plan actually do something, or it will be a permanent What If? And the bridges fall down.
As for the Debt, Covid, and foreign policy issues, it is too early to tell.
What I don't know as I don't live there, is what ending the Filibuster means -is it just a voting procedure that benefits the largest party in Congress, or does it have a deeper meaning?