"Biden Is Not Set to Achieve Anything Comparable in His First Two Years"

"The Democrats' agenda is a very progressive one, and Republicans are right to oppose most of it. If Democratic boasting about how far left they are going causes a backlash that impedes their plans and hurts them in the next election, it will serve them right. But the notion that the Left is leaving behind the half measures of the Obama era—making a great leap forward, as it were—is not really true. The first two years of the Obama presidency included, in addition to the stimulus, a permanent expansion of taxes, spending, and regulation in the Obamacare legislation; new regulation of the financial industry; and repeal of the military's 'don't ask, don’t tell' policy."

Ramesh Ponnuru at The National Review calls President Biden's "revolution" into question.

But at Politico, John F. Harris argues that Biden's "address to a joint session Congress was the most ambitious ideological statement made by any Democratic president in decades."