He’s conservative in the liberal sense. But Democrats have always been. And he’s no different. Socially he’s part of the reason we have marriage equality. Ironically putting Obama in the uneasy position of supporting it from the executive branch due to one of Biden’s patented gaffes. Honestly Biden has impressed me. Though my expectations were so low that’s not necessarily always a compliment. Though in this situation it kind of is.

The decision of his nlrb is one of the greatest labor victories of the last century. Not to mention the ftc’s recent non-compete decision. Both massive and not at all “conservative” in the American parlance of the term.