The exact defense they've employed for the past 70 years to excuse their terrible, horrible, cruel social policies that have destroyed the poor

This is different because, reasons

The same Democrats (that would be all of them) who denounced Trump’s border camp conditions say that Biden should get a past “because his heart is in the right place”.

Results don’t matter, “good intentions” do. This is why the Left doesn’t care about 85% illiteracy rates among high school “graduates” in the slums, the horrible condition of public housing units, homeless drug addicts, a weakening military — everything bad, in fact.