Many of us dismissed Biden’s claim that he could bring the parties closer together as delusional. To an extent we didn’t expect, he’s managed to do it
One seemingly safe assumption at the outset of Joe Biden’s presidency was that the primary avenue for legislative progress rested on its narrow Democratic majorities. Bipartisanship was a nice fairy tale for the voters, but everybody knew the Republican Senate would never give Biden any real wins.
— Reform for the postal service that eliminated its burdensome requirement to prefund employee pensions for 50 years. And the willingness of Senate Republicans to hand Biden a series of policy wins is a notable development in its own right. Before last year, most realistic observers believed polarization had made bipartisan legislation rare and minor. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explained the dynamic with brutal frankness a decade before:
To some extent, the rise in bipartisan legislating reflects a trend that has been quietly happening for several years. Beginning at the tail end of the Obama era, and continuing through the Trump era, Congress has passed a number of important bills that have flown under the radar. Simon Bazelon and Matthew Yglesias called the phenomenon “Secret Congress.” The pattern is that the two parties negotiate the bills almost entirely in private, avoiding both media attention and partisan conflict.
The gun-safety bill provides an even stronger example. Its success is almost the complete opposite of the Secret Congress model: The bill concerns a policy that lies close to the nerve center of the culture wars, and it never would have come together if not for an intensive wave of national press coverage. And while its provisions are quite modest, most observers would have predicted that no bill at all would pass.
McConnell hated Obama and likes Biden Barack Obama was a young, Black intellectual with little patience for hypocrisy and Senatorial self-importance. Biden is an old white guy who reveres the Senate. McConnell wanted to do anything to humiliate Obama, but he doesn’t mind handing Biden some wins.
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