Bye Bye Biden

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It’s the final Politix podcast of Joe Biden’s presidency! Soon Donald Trump will be inaugurated president for a second, non-consecutive term. Inflation and crime and border crossings will fall, wages will rise, and America will be great again. Except…all those things already happened.

In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:

* Why did the Biden presidency end in political failure, given the rosy macro picture?

* What connectivity is there between the Biden administration’s conception of itself—and its ensuing approach to policy—and its unpopularity?

* Would a younger president (even a younger version of Biden) operating under otherwise identical material circumstances have been able to spin the outputs of this administration into political gold?

Then, behind the paywall, what if anything have Democrats taken from Biden’s struggles, and are they applying those lessons to their early opposition? Why are they poised to help Republicans pass the Laken Riley Act? Do they really think holding Trump to bad-faith campaign promises will hurt him when, e.g., the cost of eggs doesn’t go down? Or is it likelier that, with Trump claiming credit for Biden’s economy, voters will stop citing the cost of living as their top political concern?

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0:00.0	They're saying the same thing.
0:01.0	They really do think that if they can keep the price of eggs where they are, they can be like,
0:06.5	ha ha, he didn't lower the price of eggs and that that's going to drag Trump's approval
0:10.8	rating down because it dragged Biden's approval rating down.
0:13.3	But that's not how it's going to work at all.
0:15.3	If he just coasts, what's going to happen is he's going to get the credit for it because
0:20.2	Democrats, instead of claiming credit for what they accomplished, are going to happen is he's going to get the credit for it because Democrats, instead of
0:21.2	claiming credit for what they accomplished, are going to apologize for it.
0:29.2	Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast.
0:33.2	This is the last politics episode of the Biden presidency.
0:37.2	And so we're going to do it as a little bit of a retrospective.
0:41.1	What we think went well, what went poorly, and why it ended the way it did in catastrophe.
0:48.8	So if you want to hear all of it, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.fm.
0:57.8	Hey. all of it, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.fm. Hey, everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew Glacius.
1:02.5	So there's some stuff going on in the here and now. I have Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing on on mute in the background.
1:11.1	It looks like he's probably going to become Secretary of Defense somehow.
1:15.9	Republicans are squeezing Democrats to pass what seems like a really bad immigration bill.
1:21.4	But we'll get to all that in another episode because there's just a few days left before inauguration.
1:28.0	And we wanted to close out the Biden presidency with a retrospect.
1:33.3	There will be a new president the next time we record.
1:36.5	Yes.
1:37.4	We have to pay homage.
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