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Joe Biden

US President, 2021 to 2025

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Passed large pandemic-relief, infrastructure and climate spending bills and rallied allies behind Ukraine, then withdrew from the 2024 race.

Joe Biden sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and centered on liberty and authority. The clearest positions are strongly institutional on institutions, leaning nature-first on environment and leaning interventionist on interventionism. The profile is close to the middle on liberty and authority.

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Where Joe Biden sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityCentered on liberty and authority
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Joe Biden

Barack Obama US President, 2009 to 201799%Kamala Harris US Vice President, 2021 to 202599%Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State, 2009 to 201399%Chuck Schumer US Senate Democratic leader, 2017 to present99%Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the US House, 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to 202399%Al Gore US Vice President, 1993 to 200199%Olaf Scholz Chancellor of Germany, 2021 to 202599%Pete Buttigieg US Secretary of Transportation, 2021 to 202599%

People furthest from Joe Biden

Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199511%Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202215%Ron Paul US Representative from Texas, 1997 to 201316%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 191016%

Political views closest to Joe Biden

Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.98%Humanitarian interventionismHolds that outside powers may use force to stop genocide and mass atrocities, even…97%Liberal internationalismBacks a rules-based world order of alliances, trade and institutions to keep the peace.96%European federalismWants Europe's states to pool sovereignty into a shared democratic federation.96%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Adam Schultz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.