MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld to discuss the latest evidence of the successes of Biden's economic policies. Sonnenfeld says Biden is having the strongest positive effect on the economy of any president since FDR.
Well yeah. As much as it seems to be in fashion, blaming one person for a shitty situation on this scale is stupid, and the over effect from this individual has been a net positive.
Shit, I didn’t even blame Trump when the economy started going to shit during his term. Shit just happens, there’s only so much any one person can do.
I mean, sort of. Is the economy determined by one person? No. An entire administration, however, definitely has some sway. Interest rates, public projects, regulations (or lack of), so subsidies, those things all have an effect. It’s a very complex system with plenty of luck and unknowns that don’t change like a light switch just because a new guy was elected.
Still, look at the economies under Clinton, Obama, and Biden, then compare those to Bush, Bush, and Trump. That’s either quite the coincidence, or the person running the show does matter.
Not only that but Trump had the ability to really cement himself as one of the greatest economists ever during covid by riding on a Democrat’s economy pre-tax cuts… He got ahead of Covid pushing ‘HIS’ vaccine through… then did a complete fucking 180 killing by pandering to an ever growing, deluded, extremist base.
Instead an extra ~319,000 people died when this was published in May, 2022… due to vaccine hesitancy, lies, and Republussian propaganda lol.
It’s wild seeing the mental gymnastics they have to go through when Democrats end up agreeing with them on something. Meanwhile Biden has done so much work on one of the most evenly split governments in United States History by working with a whopping ~15? sane republicans across the aisle.