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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The other part of it is his Presidency has been utterly brilliant, I have no doubt historians will look back at Biden as one of the most successful POTUS's ever bearing in mind the cards he's been dealt, a divided fractious country, a GOP controlled (and I use that term loosely) house, a right wing SC, the invasion of Ukraine and he has still managed to steer the economy back to world dominance, repatriated vast amounts of industry and pass more legislation than anyone since Reagan.
I suspect most in the party, like myself, where wondering when the hell the average voter was going to recognize they had just lived through the worst financial crisis the world had seen since 1974 and barely been touched by it, and perhaps that is the problem, most Americans don't realize that the world economy has fallen apart because it just hasn't touched them, but if there was any justice, or at least if previous elections were a model Biden should be unassailable, I think it's just taken the Party a while to realize that the old rules don't apply, and that in the case of Trump reality doesn't apply, he just lies to his acolytes and we live in a world were voters seem more comfortable with simple lies than the truth.
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It is bizarre that Americans seem oblivious to how they’re emerged from the pandemic with a far stronger economy and higher incomes than anywhere in the world. They’ve left Europe and Asia in the dust. And no, the wealth isn’t just being hoovered up by the rich. The poorest 20 per cent of Americans haven’t seen their real incomes rise this fast in decades.
But polarization is so bad it seems Republicans can’t bring themselves to acknowledge a strong economy if a Democrat occupies the white house. And many on the left are doomers who reflexively compare the U.S. unfavourably to the rest of the developed world.
The only other explanation I can think of inflation is such a shock to the population - many of whom have never experienced significant inflation in their adult lives - that it negates all other economic gains and metrics.