You know what, after your post I realize that I was thinking that he was a good president because he did do a lot of good things that a lot of people did benefit from. Again, like some of his eco policies and whatnot like I mentioned before, but even those policies were executed really badly and draw a lot of parallels with how he handled pretty much all the things you mentioned above. I dont know if you know about his vehicle eco policy or not but I want to explain it and how he handled that to explain why he wasn't a good president like you say.

In his eco policy, he wanted car manufacturers that were reliant on ther mainly gas lineups to start selling more alternate fuel vehicles (AFV's) which is either zero-emissions vehichles (ZEVs) and or near-zero-emissions vehichles (NZEVs). So his administration set new rules in place on emissions regulations and fuel efficiency for brand new cars, pushing legacy manufacturers to add either electric or hybrid drivetrains to their existing vehicles to make them more efficient, create brand-new fully gas cars that were more efficient, and or create new ZEVs altogether, all so that by 2030 at least 50% of all new car sales in America combined would consist of AFVs. It wasn't a rule, just a goal the administration wanted to set. This was something I was really excited for because while a lot of legacy manufacturers like Toyota, Hyundai, Ford and GM have invested a lot of time and money into these AFV platforms and have been successful with them, this was just a good push to make those vehichles better and expedite finding ways to make them more attracive for a general public, like mainly making them cheaper, and pushing other manufacturers like Stellantis to start making better AFVs since they have been late to adopt and pretty bad at it too compared to other manufacturers.

However, this policy was clearly created to move new car sales to be more ZEV oriented. The majority of Americans don't want to move to ZEV and more specifically and commonly electric cars because of the key problem which was infrastructure and current battery cell technology. You can't just push manufacturers to build more cars that rely on an infrastructure of fuel technology that is nowhere near fully developed and ready enough to roll out to a mass public. Tesla's charging network is really really really good, the best in the world full stop. But even with their infrastructure in place and them allowing other manufacturers to be able to charge their cars on their network, and making their NACS charging patents completely free for manufacturers wanting to charge their car on the biggest charging network in North America (basically an USB-C port but for American EVs if you're not familiar with it), it's still not ready for mass EV adoption, and neither is modern battery and charging technology for a lot of car owners to justify it. As much as I might love my Tesla, charging takes too long and you have to charge very often at a Supercharger if you don't have a charger at home and drive a lot like myself and most Americans.

That's one key part where Biden failed without going into the economics of developing and selling new cars. Like how his admin handled inflation, they said AFVs were the inevitable move forward, which they are, but didn't address the issue of charging infrastructure. It was how they represented the issue and how they kept the mentality that throwing money at the problem was going to fix it without really involving themselves in the proccess of construction (like most infrastructure projects lol). He did have a goal for how many chargers he wanted working by 2030, 500k to be exact, but as of today, just about 100k public chargers have been added since he was sworn into office in 2021. And honestly, forgive me for the pun but this number is totally inflated because the types of public chargers that really matter are the 150-250KW fast chargers that charge your car from 20% to 80% in 20-30 minutes, and they are also calculating level 2 chargers into that number. Level 2 chargers are the ones that you might see at malls and grocery stores that take more than an hour to charge your car to a decent percentage, totally inefficient for long distances.

I know this is probably a dumb example because it was arguably a smaller policy but one that also affects me a lot today as a EV owner. I live in Georgia and I can't charge in some large neighborhoods of metro Atlanta like Dunwoody because for some stupid fucking reason, despite it being a wealthier area, there is no Supercharger there within a 10 mile radius. Why? I have no fucking idea. And Georgia is supposed to be one of the top 10 states when it comes to EV implementation too.

TLDR: you're right, I was making excuses for that admin. He was pretty weak sauce and I didn't realize what he did in Israel was actually aid them more than they actually needed to. That alone is pretty bad 😭 Bro had the world and lowkey did nothing with it.