Portrait of Joe Biden
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Joe Biden

Role
U.S. president
Lived
1942–
Country of activity
United States United States
Strongest axis
Internationalism 83%

Joe Biden served as U.S. senator from Delaware for 36 years, vice president from 2009 to 2017 and president from 2021 to 2025. His administration passed pandemic relief, infrastructure, CHIPS and climate laws, and supported Ukraine; he ended his 2024 re-election campaign.

In the 12 Axes register, Joe Biden leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Internationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.

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The twelve axes

Where Joe Biden sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

Federal 68%Unitary

Federal

Governed within the U.S. federal system from 2021 to 2025

Democratic 68%Autocratic

Representative Democracy

Defended elected government; ended 2024 re-election bid

SecurityFreedom 68%

Liberal

Signed the Respect for Marriage Act

Diplomacy

Internationalism 83%Nationalism

Internationalism

Rejoined Paris Agreement and strengthened NATO and alliances

MilitaristPacifist

Neutral

Armed Ukraine and withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021

AssimilationistMulticulturalist 83%

Multiculturalist

Used executive actions to expand legal immigration pathways

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize

Mixed Economic

Passed American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act

Planned 68%Markets

Regulationism

IRA and CHIPS subsidies steered private investment

IsolationismGlobalism

Moderate

Kept USMCA; raised tariffs on Chinese solar cells and batteries

Society

IrreligiousReligious 68%

Spiritual

Practicing Catholic who supported legal abortion rights

Progressive 68%Traditional

Progressive

Appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

Acceleration 68%Bioconservative

Technological

Signed CHIPS Act and an AI executive order

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Federal – Unitary

On Federal – Unitary, Joe Biden is at Federal 68%. The register median is Unitary 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Democratic – Autocratic

On Democratic – Autocratic, Joe Biden is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.

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Sources and image credit

Portrait: Adam Schultz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].