@anildash Possible a very good State of the Union has righted the ship a bit.....would make sense. Biden has been under-performing in polls his actual performance as President, and a correction was inevitable. 11/
In a related essay, I discuss how the GOP's inability to craft a successful governing approach since the Cold War ended is critical to understanding the American right's descent's into MAGA, authoritarianism. 2/
The only two periods in the post WWII era where America experienced such strong growth and such a low unemployment rate was during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
We are literally living in the one of the strongest economies in US history right now.
More jobs have been created in the last 4 months (2.4m) than were created during the entire Presidencies, over 16 years, of the last 3 GOP Presidents COMBINED (1.9m).
My great hope for the Biden Presidency, as I wrote in this @Letras_Libres essay in 2020, was for him to lead a reinvigoration of the global liberal order imagined and built by US after WWII.
What we might be witnessing now. And it’s remarkable to see.
When I think of Biden and his role in US history, I always saw him as a potential modern day Cincinnatus, coming out of retirement to save the Republic.
That feels more true today than any other day of his still young Presidency.
And the cowardice and complicity of the GOP in the face of the dark Putin-Trump alliance will become as known to future generations as Zelenskyy's bravery and courage.
The Council of Economy Advisors released a report yesterday with new data showing that real wages were up for all Americans, and as Rob writes in his piece, the biggest gains were in the bottom 50%. 2/