not shitty Republicans. party switch wasn't in full effect at the congressional level yet. Which is to say, he wasn't working "across the aisle" so much as working within the batshit coalition in his caucus. Which reflects the change in party polarization and shows why his old ass is baffled by how folks can't make it work.

If it's framed as "sometimes you gotta bite the bullet with assholes to get shit done," it reads differently than "whatever happened to civility? I used to get along with racists just fine ..."

Either way, Biden has repeatedly proven that, given time and latitude enough, he's gonna prove that he ain't up to his hype.