Biden’s place shaped by bygone politics

Joe Biden may have been the right answer to the tumult in the country at the end of Donald Trump’s first term. His climate-change legislation is a substantial, enduring achievement.

It will place the country on a new glide path on the environment, making a difference in the fight to save the Earth.

But that – and his rise in job approval to 44%, up from 38% last month, according to Gallup – should n…