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Only 13% of voters say the United States is on the right track, the lowest number since they began asking this question during the great recession. Pictured: President Joe Biden hosts the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 12 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and the author of ” Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent .” President Joe Biden has a miserable 33% job approval rating, according to the New York Times/Siena College poll, making him one of the least popular first-term presidents in history. Sixty-four percent of Democrats say they want another candidate in the 2024 presidential race.
No modern president, as far as I can tell, has faced higher dissatisfaction in his own party during his first term. Only 13% of voters say the United States is on the right track, the lowest number since they began asking this question during the great recession.
Not long ago, left-wing pundits couldn’t stop talking about Donald Trump’s poll numbers—”Donald Trump is remarkably unpopular”; “The unprecedented unpopularity of Donald Trump”; “Trump is officially the most unpopular president since modern polling began in the 1930s. It will forever be his legacy,” and so on. A president with that kind of piddling support, they would argue, had no business initiating policy changes.
Nowadays, Democrats want their historically unpopular president to sign “transformative” legislation using reconciliation and unilaterally restructure American governance. The only consistent characteristic of modern liberalism is the unyielding belief that politics should be played by two sets of rules.
Still, I don’t put too much reliance on national polls. Yes, unpopularity matters. It hurts Democrats. It also further debunks the notion that the Democratic Party’s agenda items are vastly more popular, […]
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