Good comment. Even if you argue, as Democratic partisans will, that few of these were things that Biden had any control over (e.g. inflation and Dobbs), the fact is that he was the sitting president while they happened. That will make him unpopular, even if that’s “not fair”. And people will vote against him (or not vote) because he’s unpopular, even if “the alternative is worse”. If you specifically argue that he didn’t have any control over these things, he looks weak, and that makes the problem worse. And no amount of lecturing people about how they’re wrong to react in natural, perfectly predictable ways is going to change that.
Good comment. Even if you argue, as Democratic partisans will, that few of these were things that Biden had any control over (e.g. inflation and Dobbs), the fact is that he was the sitting president while they happened. That will make him unpopular, even if that’s “not fair”. And people will vote against him (or not vote) because he’s unpopular, even if “the alternative is worse”. If you specifically argue that he didn’t have any control over these things, he looks weak, and that makes the problem worse. And no amount of lecturing people about how they’re wrong to react in natural, perfectly predictable ways is going to change that.
I remember early in his term he appointed a special committee to tell him whether to pack the courts and they decided no