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    Summary of The Biden Malaise By Kimberley Strassel: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years
    Summary of The Biden Malaise By Kimberley Strassel: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years
    Summary of The Biden Malaise By Kimberley Strassel: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years
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    The bestselling author, Kim Strassel, argues that Joe Biden, like Jimmy Carter, has led the country into weakness, inflation, and political unease. The parallels between the Biden and Carter presidencies are striking, as they are both plagued by domestic and foreign policy morasses. Strassel argues that Biden's blunders are far worse than Carter's, as he doubled down on Carter's mistakes and created crises that were avoidable. He suggests that the GOP can capitalize on this mayhem by rekindling the bold and reformist approach of the 80s and 90s, aiming to restore faith in American exceptionalism.

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    PublisherWillie M. Joseph
    Release dateJul 23, 2023
    ISBN9798223050445
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      Summary of The Biden Malaise By Kimberley Strassel - Willie M. Joseph

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      INTRODUCTION

      In the summer of the author's seventh birthday, they were waiting in a long line at a gas station when their mother began shouting Jimmy Carter. The author learned three fascinating things that day: their mother could swear like a longshoreman, their grade-school dictionary was missing any useful four-letter words, and that Jimmy Carter was the absolute worst thing that ever happened to America.

      When Jimmy Carter announced his presidential run, the first senator to endorse the Georgia governor was Joe Biden. Carter would later write in the White House diary that the first-termer from Delaware had been his most effective supporter during the 1976 campaign. Biden remains a supporter still, becoming the first president since Carter left office to sojourn to Plains, Georgia, to visit and smile for a photo op.

      The Biden presidency is besotted by the comparison to Jimmy Carter, who took the reins of a nation already beset by the Great Inflation, sky-high crime, and declining U.S. oil production. Despite making every one of these situations worse with a slew of disastrous domestic and foreign policy decisions, Carter presided over a Democratic Party that was far saner than today's version, and Carter himself pushed some half-decent policies. Historians often refer to the Carter administration as one that was engulfed by domestic and foreign crises, but Biden has no such excuse.

      Biden took office with another big advantage: he had Carter's lessons of what not to do. The late 1970s are a textbook example of the perils of easy money, government micromanagement, and weak foreign policy—and Biden lived through them. He chose to govern like the second coming of Bernie Sanders, which has exacted a devastating toll on the American economy, its foreign standing, and its national psyche.

      Today's progressives make the mistake of ignoring one further piece of the Carter saga: what came after. It's not unusual for the American electorate to turn on a party in the White House, to give the other guys a shot. Bill Clinton gave way to George W. Bush, who gave way to Barack Obama, who gave way to Donald Trump. What is rare is for a president and his policies to create such a public backlash that he opens the way for a political sea change, one that remakes the American electorate. Ronald Reagan's 1984 reelection in 1984 was a historic achievement, with Ronald Reagan carrying a majority of the states.

      However, the Biden presidency has led to a backlash, with Republican governors winning reelection bids with support across the electorate. This has allowed Democrats to form a coalition of multiracial, working-, and middle-class Americans. However, conservatives must remember Reagan's lessons, as the right remains fractured in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency. Republicans are abandoning sound principles and focusing on investigations and retribution rather than governance. Reagan was the ultimate happy warrior, demonstrating conservative governance principles through his governing style.

      Americans are deeply disillusioned with the current political system, with Congress no longer capable of legislating and Democrats abandoning federalism, the electoral system, and equality. President Biden has been a leader who has taken on taboo issues and pushed for a liberty philosophy. The Republican movement has a younger bench of accomplished leaders who have adopted Trump's fight but also have the vision and message. Conservative voters must decide if their loyalty to the former president is worth risking this unique political opening. America can bounce back from the Biden malaise with the desire, energy, and formula, but it just needs a guide.

      WELCOME BACK, CARTER

      The Carter and Biden presidencies share striking similarities in policy and politics. Both men obtained the highest office by presenting themselves as enlightened moderates, but not so crazy as to alienate average Americans. Carter outmaneuvered a field of seventeen candidates, including liberals Jerry Brown and Rep. Mo Udall, and the segregationist governor of Alabama, George Wallace. Biden jumped into the largest Democratic field since that Carter race, featuring a scrum of twenty-nine candidates. Both men ran in the general election as healing correctives to controversial predecessors, but both governed in a far more liberal fashion than their divided electorates expected.

      Carter made his first priority high unemployment, and his disastrous solution was an ambitious spending program accompanied by pressure on the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply. However, inflation soared from 5.8% when Carter took office to 13.5 percent by the end of his term. Biden chose a spending blowout as his first initiative—the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—the administration larded out $1,400 checks to individuals, airdropped $350 billion on state and local governments, and dumped money on education

      Both men did damage to America's energy security, with Carter inherited a nation trying to recover from a global oil shock and a windfall profits tax on top of another oil crisis. Biden was hit by energy problems stemming from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Both men reflexively turned to government as the answer to every problem, demagoguing the private sector and larding it down with

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