On Sunday, nearly a month after a disastrous debate performance that left the Democratic Party in shambles, President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection. The decision puts to rest weeks of speculation and mudslinging, and leaves us with the far less incendiary task of assessing his legacy—something that peddles in nuts-and-bolts policy more than the sloganeering of campaigning.
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“President Biden had to thread a very thin needle,” says Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics at George Washington University. “With Europe advancing relatively aggressive tech regulation, Biden needed to simultaneously promote American tech innovation while trying to limit the harms of Big Tech in particular to Americans and to wider competition.” The gridlock in Congress made it all nearly impossible, Tromble says, adding, “The fact that he was able to advance his tech agenda at all under these conditions is truly noteworthy.”
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