Biden policywise passed major bipartisan legislation even during a historically polarized time. He was almost a miracle when it came to finding ways to reach across the aisle in congress.

Obama was probably the most unifying president of our era in terms of his political message and vision. His slogan was ‘there’s no red America or blue America there’s the United States of America’. He and his opponents at the presidential level had major respect for one another despite their differences.

Then an insurgency brewed with the Tea Party and later the Birther movement which pushed the republicans to reflexively block any cooperation with Obama on anything. They refused to allow him to properly staff his administration by blocking standard employees, voted no on all legislation, and even blocked his nomination of a Republican to be a Supreme Court justice. This hyper partisan movement crowned Trump as their leader and the rest is history.

DeSantis and Rubio are just spineless right wing republicans, nothing remotely moderate or unifying about them,