Let's talk about Republicans assessing Biden....

As inflation goes down and Biden stays healthy, he will be like Obama in 2012. Once the Insurrectionist caucus is held to account, the GOP will be laying low. Newt is thinking about running for President again. Biden will likely decline during his second term, possibly letting his VP take the reins at some point. The GOP needs to find a candidate that won't go full racist or sexist on VP Harris, even in quiet rooms where no one knows that the waiter has left his phone on (which killed Romney in 2012). 

Biden is no socialist. Bernie is not either. Both are social democrats to one degree or another. So are most Republican voters - they simply call themselves that. The extremist rhetoric on Social Security in the last cycle did not help the GOP. The GOP needs a new script. So do the Dems. If they agree on one, we can have a sane 50-50, rather than the current toxic one. 

The most big government socialist (rather than social democratic) institution we have is the DoD sector. The closer NASA and the Space Force work together, the more socialism people will tolerate.