A recent survey was really surprised. Quinnipiac University found that U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval rating dropped to 33%. It is possible to argue that this was just a poll, but the president’s approval dropped in some polls.

As CNN’s Harry Enten pointed out, four major national polls were released last week, and in three of them, including Quinnipiac, Biden had the lowest result of his presidency. In the fourth, he was “within a point of the lowest.”

These are devastating results only after a historic confirmation of a new black female justice in the Supreme Court and just seven months before the next legislative election.

the place Politician days ago he asked Biden pollster John Anzalone how difficult the situation was for Democrats. He responded in strong terms, saying no Democratic consultant would say “this is anything but a really sour environment for Democrats.”

Fed fed up and angry citizens

The problem seems more basic, on visceral levels: how do people feel? They felt confined and angry, they are tired and overwhelmed, and that critical energy is charging at Biden.

The president is a decent man. Many Americans want him as an antidote to Donald Trump for this specific reason. But the mind and mood of America changed. He wanted a show and a showman to distract him from his misery. Biden is not that. And he was punished for not being a huckster.

Biden doesn’t keep tweeting and does it for the cameras; in fact, often, he withdrew from interviews, and his silence left him an empty emotional connection.

In other words, if the Americans can’t make you happy, they will scold you.

obstacles

Biden’s presidency was far from a failure, but it was hampered by some major promises made by the then -candidate during the campaign on issues such as voting rights and police reform.

Recently it seems that, in domestic politics, Biden has moved from macro to micro, taking actions that will really benefit many Americans, but is too focused on changing our society or solving the major problems that plague it. , dedicated to black mothers. health, announces an emergency waiver to allow fuel with a higher ethanol blend to be sold this summer.

Meanwhile, two major long -term problems re -emerged: crime and economics. The fear of crime and the pinch of inflation are not abstractions, not complicated foreign policy, not benefits for special interests. They crawl through every door and hide under every table in the kitchen.

On the other hand, Republicans often play on issues of cultural war, challenging the teaching of black history and white supremacy in schools, as well as restricting LGBT discussions They exercise parental rights as Troy’s horse to legislate his conservative agenda.

Democrats, for their part, have given up on the father rights argument, instead resisting and framing these efforts as oppressive and backward. They fail to recognize that conservative oppression in this country is like an amoeba: simple, primitive, omnipresent, and highly adaptable. It just changes the shape to suit the environment and the plot.

Republicans use the fear of white parents worried about their children being harmed to lure them to the polls.

The opinion of Hispanics

had another worried sign in the Quinnipiac poll: Biden’s approval rating among people identified as Hispanic is even lower than among people identified as white.

For months now the Pundits have been discussing Biden’s declining numbers with Hispanics. In October, political analysis blog FiveThirtyEight noted that “there was a decline in support for Biden among the three racial and ethnic groups we measured, but a decline among Hispanics, from the mid -60s to less than 50 percent , marks the highest number of Biden. massive fall ever. “

The reasons for this decline seem to range from criticism in response to the pandemic to the fact that Hispanics are conservative on certain social issues.

But all of this could be big problems for Democrats and the administration, unless they can turn things around before Election Day.

Source: The New York Times

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