• Zaktor
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    2 天前

    You really do not get how people vote if you think that’s supposed to be a major achievement of Joe Biden’s presidency. This isn’t some unfair complaint brought up by the writer, this was a point Zakaria highlighted as proof that Joe Biden was awesome for workers. When the defining trait of the economy is that people have lost ground compared to four years ago, saying “aren’t you happy I’ve been managing the economy” is a bad argument.

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      You really do not get how people vote if you think that’s supposed to be a major achievement of Joe Biden’s presidency.

      Recovering from the pandemic economy is a major achievement regardless of how people vote. Just look at the economies that haven’t recovered.

      Just because many voters have a goldfish’s memory doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a major achievement.

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        1 天前

        Is it? We came back quicker than others, but we also have a far higher death toll than the rest of the western world. This again is not something to brag about. “Aren’t you glad I ended subsidies and opened up the economy” sounds great to people with investments or work-from-home suburbanites, but for a lot of people, especially minority populations, it meant risking their health just to get by.