But Joe is Doing So Good ???

George Marx
6 min readJan 24, 2022

Reading Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American” — (see: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-22-2022 ) writing yesterday about Joe Biden’s first year in office, I’d like to focus upon Why Joe Biden could be a Total Failure in 2022 and 2024.

How has Joe Biden been successful in his first year?

He’s:

1. confronted the Covid-19 crisis head-on, unlike DT,

2. turned the economy around — significantly — including getting several significant stimulus/appropriation bills passed by Congress unlike DT

3. stood up against denying that his election was “legitimate” — in contrast to DT

4. gotten U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, fulfilling the commitments of DT, ending the futile two decade war effort

5. been “decent” in his words and attitude — significantly differently from DT

How have the Republican’s responded?

They have successfully:

1. fought Biden’s efforts on Covid-19 — opposing mask mandates, significantly casting doubts about the efficacy of vaccinations — while DT and some others — selectively are supporting vaccinations

2. united against the continuation of the childcare tax credit and the potentially largest economic package to help the American people

3. created a wedge issue of inflation, which is controllable, and a logical short-term result of the…

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