Donald Trump can't burn Joe Biden's entire legacy

Senator Chris Coons spoke quickly. He was scheduled to head to the Senate to confirm President Joe Biden's latest group of judicial nominees, adding to the largest number of nominations in four years since the Carter administration. It won't just be a record number. It will be a large, diverse, experienced, qualified and young federal judiciary, with hundreds of judges at the circuit court, district court and Supreme Court levels, Coons told me. These are appointments for life. Joe Biden's legacy in the federal judiciary will last for a generation.

But for now, Biden's heaviest legacy appears to be dire: a disastrous final year in office that contributed to Donald Trump's return to the White House. Last summer, as Biden clung to his party's nomination, a senior Democratic strategist described to me, presciently, the stakes for presidents who hold on: Everything will be seen as his fault. Every Senate seat lost, every House seat lost, every right taken away by Trump. You own everything. Biden eventually left the race, of course, but not until late July; the timing, coupled with her broad and deep unpopularity, helped plunge Democrats into a deep political hole from which Kamala Harris has not emerged.

And now Trump will try to undo many of the good things Biden did during his time in office. The former and future president spent a lot of time on the 2024 campaign trail promising to reverse Biden's policies and positions on everything from transgender rights to immigration restrictions. Trump could also try to undo regulatory changes made during the last 60 days of Biden's presidency. Yet for all the ranting that may or may not turn into action, and for all the real damage Trump is sure to inflict, there are major Biden accomplishments that are Trump-proof.

Three deserve special recognition because they will have an impact, to varying degrees, on existential issues. Most striking: instead of engaging in isolationist posturing and strange sycophancy toward Vladimir Putin, the United States responded aggressively against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, organizing international resistance and sending billions in American aid. Could Biden have defended Ukraine even more forcefully? Maybe. I think the piecemeal delivery of weapons systems has become a real obstacle to greater Ukrainian success, says Michael Allen, a national security specialist at the White House under former President George W. Bush. Here again, the risks of escalation, particularly given the Russian nuclear arsenal, made a gradual approach prudent. Ukraine remains an independent nation and thousands of its citizens are alive today because Biden has been president for the past four years. Buying them this time has real value, including the possibility of a negotiated ceasefire, even if Ukraine's next four years turn out to be bleak. The situation in Ukraine is certainly desperate, says Ivo Daalder, former US ambassador to NATO. But let's also look at the other side of the ledger. The Russian army was destroyed, literally destroyed. NATO has been considerably strengthened. There is no doubt in my mind that the world is a better place today because of Biden than it would have been under Trump.

Closer to home, though also of global significance, is Biden's successful 2022 battle to pass landmark legislation. Its name, Inflation Reduction Act, was a bit of a political twist: It is true that the IRA included significant changes in health care and tax policy intended to reduce costs. But the heart of the bill was about climate change. He has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies into clean energy and climate programs, and unleashed a wave of private investment by offering billions in tax credits. Trump regularly attacks the IRA's climate change provisions, and he may be able to roll back some of its mechanisms. But it is not possible to recover the cash already invested in green energy projects. The benefits will be felt across the country. Along with the CHIPS and Science Act, that resulted in nearly $1 trillion in public and private sector investments, says Gina McCarthy, who served as Biden's first national climate adviser in the White House. This money was not spent on denying fossil fuels. This money was spent to recognize that a clean energy economy would be hugely beneficial, not only for the climate, but also for providing good jobs for people. It was designed with a 10-year horizon, and in three years we have far exceeded expectations for new technologies for manufacturing plants, new batteries to power energy, geothermal heat pumps and vehicles electrical.

The place where it will be least possible for Trump to backtrack is, rightly and ironically, the place where Biden is least likely to receive credit. The president's infrastructure effort has built or reconstructed roads, bridges, sewer systems and rail projects from coast to coast. In 2014, when he was just a vice president, Biden said LaGuardia Airport seemed more suited to a third world country than New York City. Then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was at the forefront of renovation plans, but Biden's infrastructure law allocated more than $113 million to spur the airport overhaul. Meanwhile, a makeover is also underway for the eternal rumble of I-95 south of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which is personal for Coons, who occupies the Delaware Senate seat that Biden held for 35 years. The interchange is nearing completion, he says, and it will significantly improve development in the area and reduce the huge impacts of traffic on air quality and health.

Do all these multiple unsexy victories on foreign policy, climate change, and infrastructure outweigh the implications of Harris' high-profile defeat, particularly if Trump authorizes a nationwide ban on abortion or builds mass detention camps? Probably not. But some of the gains made by a man who served his country honorably for decades and is about to leave the White House will endure beyond his administration. Someone should at least name an airport, a train line or a stretch of highway after them.

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