Comment on History Will Be Kinder to Joe Biden Than the Pollsters

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 10:01am

History Will Be Kinder to Joe Biden Than the Pollsters

Matthew Winkler: “Now that pollsters are declaring President Joe Biden a ‘failure,’ historians will reckon with too many economic signals rendering the prevailing narrative little more than media noise.” “From the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that ushered in the longest period of unemployment below 4% since the 1960s to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 that paved the way for road and bridge building, and from the Chips and Science Act of 2022 that sparked the biggest manufacturing construction boom the country has ever seen to 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act that has led to many tens of billions of investment in new technologies that are already leading to new sources of climate-friendly energy, history will show that the 46th president laid the groundwork for US exceptionalism lasting many years, perhaps even decades, after his administration has long ended.” “This is why the US economy is growing faster than any developed country as measured by the International Monetary Fund.

 

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