It's a mistake to dismiss the workers of this nation. And yet the elites within the Democratic Party have shown their disdain over and over and over again.
Zakaria’s argument is bad though. Look at the graph in that last link. It is technically outpacing inflation, but only barely and at its best point is just matching pre-COVID growth. And summed across the four years, that’s still a net negative.
That’s called recovering from the pandemic. To complain about that as if it isn’t enough is disingenuous when the alternative is things getting worse under Trump.
You really do not get how people vote if you think that’s supposed to be a major achievement of Joe Biden’s presidency. This isn’t some unfair complaint brought up by the writer, this was a point Zakaria highlighted as proof that Joe Biden was awesome for workers. When the defining trait of the economy is that people have lost ground compared to four years ago, saying “aren’t you happy I’ve been managing the economy” is a bad argument.
That’s called recovering from the pandemic. To complain about that as if it isn’t enough is disingenuous when the alternative is things getting worse under Trump.
You really do not get how people vote if you think that’s supposed to be a major achievement of Joe Biden’s presidency. This isn’t some unfair complaint brought up by the writer, this was a point Zakaria highlighted as proof that Joe Biden was awesome for workers. When the defining trait of the economy is that people have lost ground compared to four years ago, saying “aren’t you happy I’ve been managing the economy” is a bad argument.
Recovering from the pandemic economy is a major achievement regardless of how people vote. Just look at the economies that haven’t recovered.
Just because many voters have a goldfish’s memory doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a major achievement.