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How Much Did Biden’s Low Approval Rating Hurt Midterm Democrats?
The Democratic Party never thought to have a president as unpopular as Donald Trump — and the press can’t do much to help.
Of the many political surprises 2020 through 2022 held for U.S. progressives, one, in particular, stands out among the rest.
The Democratic Party never thought to have a president as unpopular as Donald Trump. If voters would have blamed Trump for it, they seem equally intent on blaming Joe Biden.
From its top elected officials and party leadership down to recently registered Democratic voters, the idea that President Biden’s dismal approval ratings are hovering down around Trump’s — as they have been throughout most of his presidency — still comes as a shocking surprise.
For Democrats, it all started in early 2016, when it was, “clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled forever.”
But like the unsuspecting aristocrats lampooned and lamented in equal measure by Charles Dickens in a Tale of Two Cities, Democrats were poised on the brink of a very rude surprise.
The rude surprise was the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. Nothing, or so progressives believed then, could ever be as shocking as Hillary Clinton’s…