Really nice analysis, Tom. I think it’s worth noting, politics in general right now has just gotten… nasty. While I think Biden would have been a good president generally in a second term, I’m not fully convinced he would have been a good president for this exact moment (given what he would have been up against.) That’s what makes it all so hard… These fun “unprecedented” times!
Well put. I agree that the Biden Administration's track record was, on the whole, fantastic (we finally got an actual Infrastructure Week!), but their messaging was awful. This is actually a problem at all levels of the Left. We need to get much better at showing people in plain language what we've done and how it has improved their lives.
As for the sniping at Biden, I think a lot of that is projected grief. We're angry, and we're looking for someone to blame. The idea of a handful of Biden insiders conspiring to keep him in power-- and by extension themselves--is easier to grapple with than 77 million of our fellow Americans.
Really nice analysis, Tom. I think it’s worth noting, politics in general right now has just gotten… nasty. While I think Biden would have been a good president generally in a second term, I’m not fully convinced he would have been a good president for this exact moment (given what he would have been up against.) That’s what makes it all so hard… These fun “unprecedented” times!
Well put. I agree that the Biden Administration's track record was, on the whole, fantastic (we finally got an actual Infrastructure Week!), but their messaging was awful. This is actually a problem at all levels of the Left. We need to get much better at showing people in plain language what we've done and how it has improved their lives.
As for the sniping at Biden, I think a lot of that is projected grief. We're angry, and we're looking for someone to blame. The idea of a handful of Biden insiders conspiring to keep him in power-- and by extension themselves--is easier to grapple with than 77 million of our fellow Americans.