Amid Record Economic Pessimism, Biden Asks for Six More Years Print
BY TIMOTHY H. LEE
THURSDAY, APRIL 27 2023
First and most alarmingly, Americans’ standard of living under Biden has now declined for 24 consecutive months, which sets an ignominious new record.
Two years into a presidency plagued by unprecedented depths of dysfunction, Joe Biden officially asked American voters this week for six more.
Most observers, of course, characterize Biden’s request as seeking “four more years,” perhaps best captured by Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker’s commentary entitled “Biden’s ‘Four More Years’ Sounds Like a Prison Term.”
Because a second Biden term would extend to 2029, however, it’s more helpful to conceptualize the prospect as six more years of what we’ve endured for the past two.
In that vein, even Biden’s enablers in the mainstream media openly acknowledge his flagging approval rating and other disquieting indicators of public wellbeing.
Beyond merely lackluster surveys that have become common knowledge, however, several new measures reaching record lows capture the gravity of the request that Biden is making of the American public.
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