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Biden joins picket line to tell UAW strikers: ‘You deserve a significant raise’
(www.theguardian.com)
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You have to be able to back it up with real legislative threats to be a bully pulpit. A president with no legislative cooperation can say whatever they want, but when everyone knows they can't do anything, corpos will just laugh it off. Bully pulpit is really when you have enough power to be able to say, "You fix this or else we'll fix it for you."
Not using the bully pulpit as president to push your agenda is almost malfeasance. If he has votes/support, there is no need for it.
He needs more than words. Words alone are useless. But believe what you want
It's like people skipped that part of US History when they were in HS.
And I think you seem to be unaware of how much the presidency has changed since Roosevelt's time. I don't think it's realistic to think Biden has the kind of influence just by existing that Roosevelt did. Minimally, Roosevelt was working with two Congressional parties who actually wanted what was best for the country who were capable of being ashamed. Biden... doesn't have that.
Like, imagine for three seconds Biden threatening some of the things Roosevelt did. There's just no way:
"Never before had a President threatened "to seize and operate a major industry"
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1901-/theodore-roosevelts-broad-powers-erin-ruth-leonard.php