Ringside at the Reckoning

Ringside at the Reckoning

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Ringside at the Reckoning
Ringside at the Reckoning
A leftist looks at Biden's economic legacy.

A leftist looks at Biden's economic legacy.

She finds "not much at all."

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Paul Mirengoff
Jan 12, 2025
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Ringside at the Reckoning
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A leftist looks at Biden's economic legacy.
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In this post about attempts to defend Joe Biden’s economic policies, I wrote that “[even] left-liberals don’t really believe much in Biden’s spending programs.” If this column by left-liberal Washington Post economics writer Catherine Rampell is any indication, I may have overstated that faction’s enthusiasm for Biden’s policies.

Biden apologists assure us that Biden’s policies will bear fruit in a decade or two. But the title of Rampell’s column is “The legacy of Bidenomics: Maybe not much at all.” Ouch.

The subtitle is at least as damning: “Biden struggled to implement economic policies that will endure past his presidency.” That presidency lapses in a matter of days.

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