of course biden was in the white house with barack obama then. so when he was elected in 2020, he happened to land in the middle of another big financial crash, the covid crash, and instituted a much more robust middle class focused response effort that really owed a lot to these lee characters and the rise of that brand of populist economic policy. and interesting to that point you write about in the fact it wasn t warren that put him over the finish line. it took a nonthreatening democrat to bring the populist agenda into being. can he still claim to being a moderate? i think he can. he doesn t code as a president radical. i think one of the things that stopped warren and sanders were too many people were scared of the idea that they are too far left, they are too radical. but biden is the furthest thing from a radical. he was able to take up a lot of policies and get them impl