{"id":309115,"date":"2021-07-27T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/american-optimism-drops-20-points-to-mark-bidens-six-months-in-office\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T23:23:10","slug":"american-optimism-drops-20-points-to-mark-bidens-six-months-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/american-optimism-drops-20-points-to-mark-bidens-six-months-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"#American optimism drops 20 points to mark Biden\u2019s six months in office"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#American optimism drops 20 points to mark Biden\u2019s six months in office<\/strong>”
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The honeymoon is officially over. Americans\u2019 optimism about the country\u2019s direction has plummeted almost 20 points since the spring. Sadly, that\u2019s a rational reaction to President Joe Biden\u2019s first six months.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just that the public gives the prez low marks on his handling (non-handling is more like it) of the surge at the southern border and the surge in shootings on our streets. There are also worries about rapid inflation and new lockdowns in the face of the Delta variant \u2014 problems Team Biden is plainly making worse. <\/p>\n

In the ABC News<\/a>\/Ipsos poll, just 45 percent of Americans are optimistic about the country\u2019s direction this coming year, down from 64 percent in early May. And the drop was about the same 20 points for Republicans and Democrats \u2014 and worse, 26 points, for independents.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder. Consumer prices rose 5.4 percent in June from a year earlier, the biggest monthly jump since right before the 2008 financial crisis. Even the post-pandemic recovery seems at risk, as new unemployment claims jumped last week to 419,000, the highest level since mid-May and more than twice the average in pre-pandemic 2019.<\/p>\n

Yet Biden claims there\u2019s \u201cno evidence\u201d his expanded jobless benefits\u00a0slowed the return to work and refuses to admit his vast spending plans threaten even more inflation. <\/p>\n

Crucially, Biden\u2019s handling of the pandemic got its lowest rating yet, with 63 percent app<\/a>roval. That\u2019s better than he\u2019s earned.<\/p>\n

The prez took credit for the vaccines President Donald Trump got off the ground, but he missed his own target of getting 70 percent of adults their first shot by July 4 and still hasn\u2019t met it. Meanwhile, his chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, is talking about another mask mandate while Americans worry about more lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Getting Americans jabbed should <\/em>have been Biden\u2019s overwhelming priority. Yet his team clearly underestimated the challenge \u2014 despite such known facts as: Many of us won\u2019t even get the flu vaccine, and even health-care workers are notoriously vax-resistant.<\/p>\n

Worse, he put his focus instead on an utterly partisan crusade to transform the nation with a vastly bigger federal government. First, he insisted on his overlarge \u201crelief\u201d bill, passing it on a party-line vote that only deepened the divide in Congress. <\/p>\n

Then he began a feckless drive for another $6 trillion in new spending, aiming to rival FDR when his party barely controls either house of Congress. He also burned energy and political capital with \u201cJim Crow\u201d nonsense about Republican efforts to slightly tighten election security and embraced the left\u2019s incredibly divisive \u201csystemic racism\u201d obsession.<\/p>\n

All while the vaccine effort flagged. And now his administration is feeding false fears of doom over Delta. <\/p>\n

If Biden had governed as he promised on Inauguration Day, seeking unity, he could have passed a series<\/a> of modest bipartisan bills targeted at the nation\u2019s real needs, while focusing on the serious challenge of jabbing the whole country to guarantee a return to normalcy and the booming pre-COVID economy. But he chose to chase \u201chistoric victories\u201d and so deepened political divisions while sowing economic trouble. <\/p>\n

Ironically, a president elected mainly to be different <\/em>from the last guy has been all about feeding his own ego \u2014\u00a0and earning this huge loss in public confidence.\n <\/div>\n

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“#American optimism drops 20 points to mark Biden\u2019s six months in office” The honeymoon is officially over. Americans\u2019 optimism about the country\u2019s direction has plummeted almost 20 points since the spring. Sadly, that\u2019s a rational reaction to President Joe Biden\u2019s first six months. It\u2019s not just that the public gives the prez low marks on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/1330758475.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[112822,1545,4998,5069,43,991,5071],"class_list":["post-309115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-26-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-crime","tag-economy","tag-editorial","tag-joe-biden","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}