During the 2020 campaign, there were certain issues where, according to some anti-Trump evangelists, Trump was simply so beyond the pale — immigration and the pandemic maybe chief among them — that even though Democratic nominee Joe Biden might fail to deliver a break from the stagnant economic status quo, it was every American’s solemn duty to halt and reverse the damage by voting him out. A hundred days into Biden’s presidency, it’s no small irony that while he’s made a surprising if uneven break from neoliberal dogma, it’s on these very issues that were core to the argument about Trump as a uniquely vile anomaly that Biden’s administration has done the least to differentiate itself.

On immigration and the border, Biden has continued a number of the most shocking Trump-era policies, policies that were widely labeled racist, irrational, and even fascistic when Trump pursued them — right down to continuing to build Trump’s border wall. It’s fitting, given that Trump’s own immigration policies were an escalation relative to the Democratic administration that preceded him, in which Biden served. And it suggests a more long-term bipartisan consensus on the matter that should put anyone appalled by Trump’s policies at unease.

Biden’s rightward shift on immigration shouldn’t be entirely surprising, not just because this kind of thing has been his political MO for decades, but because the Democratic administration he himself served in before Trump came along laid the groundwork for much of what he did. And that might be the most worrying part.