FINAL WORD
Nobody really believes Biden has a powerful vision for the future of the country – it’s not even clear But there is another question that we all should face now... Will Biden be any good at the job? For at least the first six months once he takes the Oval Office, Biden has a pretty clear pathway to high approval ratings. For one thing, the media will pretend that every speech he gives is the rhetorical equivalent of the Gettysburg Address. We will be told ad nauseam that every decent American across the country has given him a “mandate” to pursue Democrat policies. Instead of sham special counsels and impeachment, Joe will get Vanity Fair covers and late-night
comedians making jokes about how he’s America’s cuddly grandpa. As for COVID-19 response, Biden is in a can’t lose position. His admittedly polarizing predecessor bequeathed him a vaccination program that will, if state governments can stop their unthinkable incompetence thus far, begin to dramatically bring down the hospitalization and death rate. There’s a very good chance that America will start to feel substantially more normal by this summer, and I’d bet on a boom in “back to everyday life” sentiment – and a tsunami of consumer spending – by September of 2021. The “Biden is the cure” political narrative almost writes itself, and will surely play a big role in the 2022 midterms.
what the man believes – so there’s no reason to think he’ll put up much resistance. CHECK OUT OU All Biden has to do is show up, seem like a steady hand, and avoid any major screw-ups. If he does that, the fact that a man who often seems more equipped to feed the squirrels in the park with a shawl over his shoulders will be treated by the media like the second
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