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If so? Please elaborate.

If not, what would he do different?

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No he wouldn't. I doubt anyone would either. He's 82 and has been in government for for more than 50 years. Society evolved massively since then some for the better some for the worse. People evolve along with it to an extent.

One obvious example is Biden's early views where he was opposed to certain gay rights including initially opposing "Don't Ask, don't tell" and also opposing gay marriage. However in his later years, he made substantial contributions to gay rights with full support of openly gay people in the military as well as backing gay marriage. He also issued a full pardon of any service member in history that was every cited or charged with homosexual as a crime/rulebreaking.