President Biden’s policy agenda is incredibly popular, much more popular than his opponent’s. But Biden the man? Not so much.
The question now is whom to blame for the approval gap between the president and his agenda: voters, the media or Biden himself.
Democrats have long argued that their policies are more popular than those of Republicans. In a recent blind test conducted by YouGov, that was unmistakably true. The polling organization asked Americans what they thought about major policies proposed by Biden and Donald Trump without specifying who proposed them. The idea was to see how the public perceived ideas when stripped of tribal associations.
Biden’s agenda was the winner, hands down.
Of the 28 Biden proposals YouGov asked about, 27 were supported by more people than opposed them. Impressively, 24 received support from more than 50 percent of respondents.
So I just want to be clear about something. Press Secretary, Jean-Pierre said yesterday (as she often repeats per their messaging): “Biden’s record speaks for itself.”
I want to go like, “Hi, Press Secretary. Quick follow-up: If it speaks for itself, then why is Biden losing in every battleground state with an aggregate national approval rating of 37%?”
It doesn’t seem that letting it speak for itself is working.
Good, because an adult knows that a presidency is not a single man - it’s a philosophy, vision and general momentum towards a set of policies.
skibidi biden
Hell yeah Genocide!
All I hear when I read these comments is “I want my genocide with a big helping of fascism!”
Donald Trump will claim he’s protecting Americans from White Genocide and Baby Genocide. The conservatives will glibbly assert they are the “Anti-Genocide” party. And Joe Biden will mumble about illegal immigrants killing American children, while he sinks another five points in the polls.
Then we’re going to get told that Tankies cost Democrats the White House (but, strangely, not the legislature). This will give Hakeem and Chuck the excuse to cave to every Republican demand, because it’s what the People Want.
I hope your comment was sarcastic. If not:
Hell yeah “non-Fascist” Genocide!
America wants socialism, but our two parties and their donors rather have fascism.
I mean, technically it is. But so is fascism. Both have the government tightly controlling everything, including industry. But socialism/communism (in theory) works for the good of the many, while fascism always only works for the good of the few.
We never really had true communism didn’t we? God I wish we would try it out…
Calmly explaining to my stupid tankie friends why public schools and postal services and public wifi at public libraries and Amtrak and Medicare and the Hoover Dam are wildly unpopular. What people really want are more cops, more wars, and more credit card debts.
If America wanted socialism, Bernie Sanders would have been president.
The moment a politician talks about raising taxes, that’s it, they lose votes. Far too many people in the U.S. have been hurting from inflation (which is just another form of taxation, btw) combined with all other forms of taxation.