Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed
msnbc.com
Summary
President Joe Biden’s economic achievements—lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturing—are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.
His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.
However, Biden's approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.
Democrats face a “propaganda problem” rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Biden’s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.
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They actually have been.
The issue was messaging. Harris made her campaign about fear of Trump. She should have used outrage towards those you just mentioned along with a solid plan of how to regulate that behavior.
As the link i posted points out, there is already a law on the books to stop exactly what Walmart and Target are doing in the US.
It has just never been enforced against them and the Biden administration joins the list that did nothing to stop them using laws they already had
The FTC over the last two years has been going after corporations. But, anti-trust lawsuits take time. And I agree that they could have been more aggressive.
So, the issue wasn't that the democrats weren't doing anything and had no plans to do anything. It was that their messaging was shit. They should have directed more outrage at corporations and used fewer appeals to reason.
The rhetoric that works in a courtroom isn't what wins elections, in other words.
I for one am tired of the smoke and mirrors.
Queue up meaningful change but then "oops, new term, " Obama didn't investigate Dubya's fucking Torture Camps, nor into the subprime mortgage.
They did the same shit with Net Neutrality under Obama. Left it with a massive and meaningless "ramp up" time that coincidentally meant it would be a year into the next president's term. Oops Ajit Pall is parachuted in and cancels the whole thing before the "ramp up" is done.
To be fair, she had little more than a weekend to come up with her campaign messaging. She was made candidate like 3 months before election day.
Which is why I blame Biden for his pride and hubris. He should have stepped down, so a primary could have been run and the candidate, Harris or otherwise, had a better shot.
Hmm... I've dealt with elderly relatives, and it can be hard to tell when someone's no longer capable of doing something... so I have a bit of sympathy for him there. It's possible that a year ago Biden was up to the job and really was the best chance at defeating Trump. And he gets credit for stepping down when he did. However I'm a little more skeptical of his sticking VP Harris with the job of solving the border crisis, which is a notoriously unsolvable problem.
I suspect that given 3 months to jump-start a campaign, NOBODY could have won this election against Trump. Biden was headed towards Dukakis and Mondale levels of defeat, and Harris at least brought it to a couple hundred thousand in 3 states. (I wish I could post my argument to "unpopular opinion", but apparently they prohibit political posts.)
If we'd had a proper primary Harris wouldnt even have been the nominee at all. I agree with you, Bidens self serving hubris is a key part of the loss and potentially the end of our republic. Obama did warn us all several times that Biden is an idiot.