{"id":2390429,"date":"2025-01-15T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-is-unpopular-because-of-bad-policies-not-bad-messaging\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:49:48","slug":"biden-is-unpopular-because-of-bad-policies-not-bad-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-is-unpopular-because-of-bad-policies-not-bad-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Is Unpopular Because Of Bad Policies, Not Bad Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-is-unpopular-because-of-bad-policies-not-bad-messaging%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In an interview with Susan Page of USA Today, President Joe Biden defended his presidency by suggesting that voters did\u200c not\u2062 fully appreciate his administration&#8217;s achievements. He expressed regret about not highlighting the goverment&#8217;s \u2062role in helping families through economic relief,\u200c reminiscent of tactics often employed\u2064 by Democrats to rationalize unpopular policies. Biden&#8217;s comments echo past sentiments from \u200dDemocratic \u2062leaders, including Barack obama,\u2063 who \u200bpreviously noted that \u2063the \u200cstorytelling aspect of leadership is vital,\u200c suggesting that failures \u200din communication\u2063 may contribute to public discontent. This recurring theme indicates a tendency among Democratic politicians to blame voter \u200bmisunderstanding for political backlash, rather than \u2063acknowledging\u2062 the potential unpopularity of their policies themselves. The conversation also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-view-pushes-a-pardon-for-hunter-biden-and-the-presidents-dogs-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"The View pushes a pardon for Hunter Biden and the president\u2019s dogs - Washington Examiner\">referenced past instances<\/a> where <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">lawmakers\u200b dismissed voter concerns<\/a>, showcasing a long-standing pattern\u2062 in \u200dpolitical discourse regarding accountability \u200band voter comprehension.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When it comes to the departing president, the old quip rings true: For Joe Biden, denial is not just a river in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2025\/01\/08\/joe-biden-interview-transcript\/77490912007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exit interview<\/a> with Susan Page of USA Today, Biden tried to defend his failed administration by claiming that voters just did not understand what he and fellow Democrats had accomplished. It isn&rsquo;t a new tactic &mdash; for decades, Democrats have used this rationalization to justify their unpopular policies &mdash; but it explains why working-class voters deserted Biden&rsquo;s party in droves last November and likely will continue to do so unless they change course.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Didn&rsquo;t Take Enough Credit???<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the interview, Biden claimed his presidency floundered because he didn&rsquo;t take enough credit for what he had accomplished:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BIDEN: I shouldn&rsquo;t admit this, but I will. I don&rsquo;t think that Donald Trump knows as much substantively as I do about these things. But when we came along with the rescue plan, guess what? He signed his name for that check, the first check that went out to those families, all of which he opposes now. But [inaudible] &ldquo;Trump gave me $7,500 for my family.&rdquo; So I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve been very good at-<\/p>\n<p>PAGE: Taking credit?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: Or not so much me, but establish that the government did this for you. It wasn&rsquo;t&hellip; It was&hellip; Anyway&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to his incoherent &ldquo;anyway&rdquo; trail-off, Biden sounds almost as self-serving as a job applicant in an interview claiming his greatest fault is that he works too hard and cares too much.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Typical Democrat Excuses<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Fortunately or unfortunately, Biden&rsquo;s statement represents but the latest instance in a genre of Democrat excuses, whereby they insult voters by claiming the electorate just didn&rsquo;t understand all the wonderful things government did for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As he ran for reelection in 2012, Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/13\/with-charlie-rose-obama-reflects-on-lessons-learned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> in an interview with Charlie Rose that his biggest mistake as president was being too focused on &ldquo;getting the policy right. &hellip; [T]he nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As I noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniperresearchgroup.com\/post\/2012\/07\/13\/obama-the-story-teller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the time<\/a> of the Rose interview, Obama spent most of the debate around Obamacare &ldquo;telling stories&rdquo; as part of his attempt to sell the law &mdash; for instance, what in 2013 became Politifact&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2013\/dec\/12\/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lie of the Year<\/a>&rdquo;: &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qpa-5JdCnmo?si=3XwL31arGd36qB-Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If you like your plan, you can keep it<\/a>.&rdquo; But that irony didn&rsquo;t stop Obama from claiming that his fault lay in his policy <em>messaging<\/em> rather than the policies themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades before Obamacare, another Chicago-based politician also blamed voters for political blowback to unpopular policies, in a less subtle way than his Windy City successor. While being chased down a street by a mob of seniors angry that their taxes were being raised to pay for a new Medicare benefit (which Congress eventually repealed), Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., then the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, responded, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they [i.e., his constituents] understand what, you know, what the government&rsquo;s trying to do for them, is the problem. &hellip; I don&rsquo;t think they understand what&rsquo;s going on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"'Buried In The Archives,' The Original Town-Hall Battle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qre7DzEtxyc?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>I don&rsquo;t think they understand what the government&rsquo;s trying to do for them<\/em>. If ever a series of words exemplified Ronald Reagan&rsquo;s axiom that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xhYJS80MgYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nine most terrifying words<\/a> in the English language are, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m from the government, and I&rsquo;m here to help,&rdquo; Rostenkowski&rsquo;s did.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Taking &lsquo;Credit&rsquo; for Bad Policies&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to the departing president, he can take all the &ldquo;credit&rdquo; he wants for his policies. Because, as the title of a recent Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/its-bidens-policies-stupid-disenchantment-inflation-voters-f656c3d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a> on this issue explained, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dragon-age-indulges-trans-delusion-with-top-surgery-avatars\/\" title=\"&#039;Dragon Age&#039; Indulges Trans Delusion With &#039;Top Surgery&#039; Avatars\">problem doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t lie in Joe Biden&rsquo;s messaging: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s Biden&rsquo;s Policies, Stupid!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s comments to Page suggested his belief that &ldquo;free&rdquo; handouts will appease voters and that he should have promoted Democrats&rsquo; Covid spending binge more strongly. But those trillions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wake-up-with-the-washington-examiner-bidens-lost-authority-tester-in-trouble-and-trumps-new-campaign-plan-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Wake up with the Washington Examiner: Biden\u2019s lost authority, Tester in trouble, and Trump\u2019s new campaign plan - Washington Examiner\">government spending &#038;mdash<\/a>; which, to be fair, started under President Trump &mdash; sparked the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/17\/persistent-bidenflation-explains-why-americans-think-the-economy-is-poor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflation<\/a> that has sapped the American economy over the past few years. All of this was both predictable and predicted, even by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/obama-economic-adviser-larry-summers-inflation-biden-stimulus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats like Larry Summers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Biden &ldquo;forgot&rdquo; this history during his interview, claiming that &ldquo;the interest rate was 9% when we came into office in the beginning.&rdquo; Biden likely meant the inflation rate, not the interest rate, but neither was anywhere near 9 percent when Biden took office in January 2021 &mdash; although interest rates later had to rise to counteract the gusher of spending coming from Joe Biden&rsquo;s Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, Americans voted for Trump not because he gave them government checks but because he allowed them to prosper themselves. Real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) incomes <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/22\/census-report-shows-how-jaw-dropping-trumps-economy-was-before-shutdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rose to record levels<\/a> during the first few years of his presidency. Because of the crushing effects of &ldquo;Bidenflation,&rdquo; family incomes <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/19\/census-data-shows-americans-havent-gotten-a-pay-raise-since-trump-was-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still have yet to recover<\/a> to their pre-Covid levels. That history, and not anything about a government check, echoed in most Americans&rsquo; minds when they went into the voting booth on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats will have little chance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juan-williams-issues-stark-warning-republicans-are-preparing-the-ground-to-steal-an-election\/\" title=\"Juan Williams Issues Stark Warning: Republicans Are \u2018Preparing The Ground To Steal An Election\u2019\">regaining political power<\/a> until they understand that their unpopularity stems not from their messaging, or Biden&rsquo;s advanced age, but the policies they have put forward. Perhaps the party should remember that one of the best self-help tools is also one of the simplest: a mirror. Joe Biden and Democrats ought to use it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden claims voters misunderstood his administration&#8217;s achievements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2390430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Biden-Remarks-Dec-9-2024.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3620,16409,4600,33017,18869],"class_list":["post-2390429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biden","tag-messaging","tag-policies","tag-political-analysis","tag-unpopular"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Biden-Remarks-Dec-9-2024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390433,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390429\/revisions\/2390433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}