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.
The communication isn’t the problem. They communicated just fine. Increase taxes a little to send money to fight proxy wars overseas without drastically reducing any existing public saftey nets. Give money to companies saying they are seeking green alternatives as a way to reduce carbon emissions. That is the whole set of policies they have enacted.
Everything else they have to say is just that they won’t be awful. They won’t protect abortion, but they won’t get rid of it at least. They won’t increase the minimum wage, but they won’t try to bring back children in coal mines at least. They won’t help make it easier to form a union, but they are not going to actively break up existing ones. They won’t make it cheaper to own a house or decrease housing prices, but they will give everyone enough money they can get locked into that mortgage. They won’t pay for college, but at least they won’t defund public schools in favor of religious charter schools.
They didn’t lose by 2%, they lost by getting less than a third of America to vote for them. This was a crushing loss that shows they are out of touch with the needs of the American people. They won’t fix that by demonizing the voters. They have gone to the well of trying to get Americans to hate themselves for 16 years now and the well is dry.