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It is impossible to overstate just how desperately Joe Biden wanted to make himself president. That ambition was made crystal clear across his two bids for the Oval Office in 1988 and 2008, before he finally got over the hump in 2020 after leveraging his claim as the dubious successor of the Obama years. His approval rating swooned shortly after that belated triumph, but judging by the policy ledger alone, it can be argued that Biden weaved together a moderately successful administration. He was able to usher several of his long-standing fixations across the finish line with acceptable consensus. Some of those achievements were broadly popular (the infrastructure b

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