Who could deny that Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents?
His signature achievement, after all, was to get Donald Trump elected to a second term in the White House. If that isn’t consequential, I don’t know what is.
Explaining how he managed this demanding feat isn’t straightforward. Biden’s defenders are right to say that the U.S. economy is doing well, by international standards and in fact by any standards: full employment, faster growth than elsewhere and inflation (almost) back under control. Perhaps the Democratic party, as opposed to Biden, is to blame — for dumping the architect of this economic revival and nominating (if that’s the right word) a weaker candidate to run against the would-be tyrant. This appears to be Biden’s theory of the case, at any rate.
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