This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Hannah Rosen. Now, I'm not speaking as a partisan here. Just

an observer of human nature. There is something I can't understand about the Biden administration.

They have objectively, objectively pulled off some pretty huge things. An enormous and

complicated vaccine rollout. The biggest investment in infrastructure in over 50 years, the lowest

unemployment rate in over 50 years. These are moves which are impressive and historic and

helpful to many, many Americans. And yet, poll after poll shows that when people are asked

about these accomplishments, they're surprised. They've never heard of them. They're annoyed

that the media isn't reporting about them more. Or they just shrug. Like, who cares? Why? Why

don't these legitimate wins penetrate the public consciousness? Now, there are inside political

consultant type answers, which point the finger at Biden and his style of governing. Just as

there are insider type answers to what happened in the house this week, when a tiny group of

Republican extremists ousted the speaker of the house. Something is wrong with them, the

politicians. And I suspect it's more complicated than that. And what I'm wondering about is us, the

voters, what we've become accustomed to, what we're maybe encouraging, what we are and are not

paying attention to, and what we say we want versus what we actually want. So what part of it

is them? And what part of it is us? Recently at a live show, I ran these questions by Atlantic

Staff writer Frank Forer, who just wrote a book called The Last Politician about Joe Biden, and

Elena Plot-Colabro, who writes about politics for the Atlantic, and who has asked a lot of experience

pollsters questions like this. What is the problem? Why don't voters know about these big successes?

I think it's not natural for somebody like President Biden to try and go out and focus on shaping

the narrative that way. At the end of the day, you'll talk to pollsters who say, I go in and I say,

did you know that this administration kind of executed the largest investment and infrastructure

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